Sentence examples for a potential obligation from inspiring English sources

Every young man — regrettably, only men — shared a potential obligation to his country.

Ray, Jr. benefitted by discharging the contingent rights of a wife for whom he no longer cared and Ray, Sr. benefitted by being released from a potential obligation to make monthly payments to the plaintiff.

"A potential obligation is not an independent basis for saving documents," said Mercer Bullard, who runs Fund Democracy, a mutual fund advocacy group at the School of Law at the University of Mississippi.

Together, the carriers would have a maximum potential obligation to refund $120 million to consumers.

He may buy a controlling interest and relieve General Motors of its potential obligation to acquire the 80percentt stake in the iconic but troubled Italian automaker that it doesn't already own.

Iraq's total potential obligation -- from war-related compensation claims, foreign debt and pending contracts -- is $383 billion, according to Frederick D. Barton and Bathsheba N. Crocker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

The ELSI literature on biobanking has largely focused on the issues associated with a biobank's relationship to its contributors, considering obligations represented in informed consent agreements and the potential obligation to return individual research results.

Finally, it recognizes that any plausible framework must impose necessary boundaries on the extent of liability, including delineating the nature of the rights to be protected and the scope of a PMSC's potential obligations in relation to those rights.

Siblings also represent a pool of potential obligations to provide financial assistance, care, and support in times of need.

"While we continue to look at other potential obligations for market participants, this is an important step in our effort to improve the functioning of the U.S. markets and restore investor confidence following the events of May 6," Mary L. Schapiro, the S.E.C. chairwoman, said in a statement.

Of these potential obligations, over $200 billion is war reparations, mostly arising from the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.