The phrase "actual obligations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to responsibilities or duties that are currently in effect or must be fulfilled.
Example: "It is important to prioritize your actual obligations before taking on new commitments."
Alternatives: "real responsibilities" or "current duties".
However, critics wonder if such hypothetical consent can ever really generate actual obligations.
But that counts all guaranteed debt the equivalent, in home insurance, of the value of houses covered rather than premiums paid.For interest-rate contracts, notional values are even more misleading because they are based on principal amounts; actual obligations depend on interest payments.
The Pew Center on the States, using the states' own actuarial data, estimates that there is a $1.38 trillion dollar gap between what governments have set aside to pay for public employees' pensions and retiree health care costs and their actual obligations.
Fortunately, that is not our problem — the last of these provisos requires the Secretary of Agriculture, who is Tom Vilsack, the former Democratic Governor of Iowa (and onetime ardent Hillary Clinton supporter) to report to the House Committee on Appropriations within ninety days on "planned spending and actual obligations describing the use of these funds".
Fortunately, that is not our problem the last of these provisos requires the Secretary of Agriculture, who is Tom Vilsack, the former Democratic Governor of Iowa (and onetime ardent Hillary Clinton supporter) to report to the House Committee on Appropriations within ninety days on "planned spending and actual obligations describing the use of these funds".
Here is a tally of AIG's actual obligations under its various bailouts.
The fact that Uber's Terms of Service apparently disclaim any actual obligation to provide its passengers with transportation services would likely come as a surprise to those numerous riders who successfully use Uber to obtain such services.
Ross distinguished those prima facie duties (such as promise keeping, reparation, gratitude, and justice) from actual duties, for "any possible act has many sides to it which are relevant to its rightness or wrongness"; and those facets have to be weighed before "forming a judgment on the totality of its nature" as an actual obligation in the given circumstances.
"Groupon is likely to argue that it's just a statement of their customer service plan, not their actual obligation.
The idea that my obligation to not kill my mother gently (say for an inheritance) merely expresses an "ideal" obligation, but not an actual obligation, given that I will kill her, seems hard to swallow.
While I indeed have prima facie obligations both to return the gun and to not return it, the only actual obligation I have in the circumstances that were described is the obligation to not return the gun.
