The phrase "affirmative obligations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, ethical, or formal contexts to refer to duties or responsibilities that require proactive action.
Example: "The contract outlines the affirmative obligations of both parties to ensure compliance with the agreed terms."
Alternatives: "positive duties" or "proactive responsibilities".
Private parties like Google have no affirmative obligations to protect Internet users' rights by indexing particular websites.
But speaking at a joint appearance with the South Korean President, Kim Dae Jung, today, he called the requested documents "quite important" and said Iraq had "some affirmative obligations" to help weapons inspectors.
Liberals refer to the "shadow Constitution," under which the government has affirmative obligations to alleviate inequality, protect people from harm that results only indirectly from official action, and surround criminal defendants and prisoners with a range of safeguards.
Given that § 6.5.1 clearly covers the affirmative obligations of the parties in the regulatory context, it disrupts the sensible structure of the Merger Agreement to read § 6.5.6 as being other than what it purports to be: a negative covenant that has the limited and complementary purpose of prohibiting parties from taking affirmative action with the likely effect of impeding the Merger's closing.
See Anthony S. Barkow & Rachel E. Barkow, Introduction to Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct 1, 3 (Anthony S. Barkow & Rachel E. Barkow eds., 2011) (Using DPAs, "prosecutors impose affirmative obligations on companies to change personnel, revamp their business practices, and adopt new models of corporate governance".).
Most feel there are few if any affirmative obligations of citizenship".
We also believe the Post should have an affirmative obligation to investigate and affirm the allegations before it chooses to do such harm".
Five justices said lawyers had an affirmative obligation to tell clients about the possibility of deportation.
Employees must have an affirmative obligation to blow the whistle internally as early as possible.
Such families have an affirmative obligation to support the community from which they gain so much.
The addressee carries an affirmative obligation which we do not think the Government may impose on him.
