The phrase "accepted obligations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one refers to responsibilities or duties that have been acknowledged or agreed upon.
Example: "The company must fulfill its accepted obligations to its employees and stakeholders."
Alternatives: "acknowledged responsibilities" or "recognized duties".
Central to the argument is the need to adhere to "locally accepted obligations of civility".
And their mere presence makes us uncomfortable, so therefore they are not civil and need to be replaced with someone more like those of us who set the locally accepted obligations of civility.
And we are right back to Jim Crow Laws, Sundown Laws, Ugly Laws and Anti-Okie Laws, local laws that profess to "uphold the locally accepted obligations of civility".
In order to achieve these objectives the parties accepted obligations of conduct, obligations of performance, and obligations of result.
The argument that the House of Commons has freely accepted obligation to accept the authority of the human rights court has worn thin.
Anyone who owns a dog accepts – or ought to accept – obligations that are exacting.
By joining GATT, Taiwan would accept obligations to comply with internationally agreed-upon trading rules.
Any writer who takes on genocide as his topic accepts obligations that, if not exactly contradictory, are clearly in tension.
Many shipping companies felt they were benevolent, however, offering certainty on rates to and from European ports and accepting obligations to cover berths.
First, it is the first universal agreement in which all countries, developed as well as developing, accept obligations to manage their greenhouse gas emissions.
They want decent wages; more autonomy and dignity at work; they want the rich to accept obligations to promote the common good; firms to recognise that there is only any morality to profit making if it is as a consequence of delivering a declared economic purpose - to manufacture a great car, build a safe plane or whatever.
