The challenged judgment, I think, should be affirmed upon the theory that, subsequent to the enabling amendment of June 25 , 1930 both parties recognized an existing obligation to observe the terms of the pledge agreement, and on this understanding maintained the relationship of debtor and creditor.
Speechwriters have a special obligation to observe character, report anecdote and explicate policy, as Peggy Noonan faithfully did with Reagan and Bush.
Pre and post-swim, you have the opportunity, or perhaps I should say the obligation, to observe a range of bodies naked and in close quarters.
Hirsch, an influential theologian and community leader who admired Schiller almost as much as he did Maimonides, cautiously embraced modernity while insisting on the obligation to observe Jewish law.
"The U.S. Embassy in Beijing has the obligation to observe relevant international laws and Chinese laws, and it should not do anything irrelevant to its function".
The lawyer's obligations as an officer of the court permit the court to call on the lawyer to perform duties which no court could order citizens generally to do, including the obligation to observe codes of ethical conduct not binding on the public generally.
While I do not share the political or social views of these people, I do respect their rights of free speech, but with free speech comes the obligation to observe rules of common decency.
In other words, a grant from the National Institutes of Health or the National Endowment for the Humanities also carries the obligation to observe Constitution Day — and all such grants are implicitly at risk of being forfeited by any school, college or university that chooses to spend its Sept. 17 doing something else.
