The city accumulated obligations to its workers and made rash spending pledges.
State Comptroller Judy Topinka warns of a $2-billion collapse that will further erode funding for education and vital human services as leaders grapple with pensions and other accumulated obligations.
Not to mention a fantasy of anyone who has ever imagined ditching all the emotional baggage and obligations accumulated over the years and starting over, tabula rasa.
He has accumulated multiple and sometimes conflicting obligations while building a coalition in the ANC against Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as president and was ousted by Mr Zuma's allies last year.
But that left 10.7 trillion renminbi worth of debt accumulated by local governments to meet obligations under the national plan.
With many cities now preoccupied with other crushing costs — pension obligations, retiree health care, accumulated unpaid bills — a sudden call to honor a long-forgotten bond guarantee can be a bolt from the blue, precipitating a crisis.
Strong family bonds and social capital, accumulated by fulfilling family norms and obligations over the years, influenced to whom persons with dementia delegated authority.
Francillon felt under no such obligation, and as his small miracles accumulated, optimism spread through his defenders, and they, too, began to challenge the Italians as equals.
But the collapsing economy created an opportunity, and in some cases an ultimatum, for Americans to reassess the raft of obligations and the loads of stuff we accumulated before things went wrong.
The Asian countries may not have cut back much on their overall debt burden, but at least short-term external-debt obligations are more than covered by huge accumulated foreign-exchange reserves.
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter - 3/5 "It gets a little tedious after all these years," admits Katniss Everdeen about her life's obligations in her final line of dialogue after 547 accumulated minutes of The Hunger Games films.
