Mr. Koposov has been obliged to explain to some of his colleagues why Smolny teaches dance when Russia needs bullets.
Card issuers will also be obliged to explain their terms in plain English and inform customers about the cost of using their cards.
O'Neal had little choice but to accept this recommendation, and was obliged to explain to the board — and to the rest of Wall Street — how the write-off had grown by three billion dollars.
The difference is that it would have been obliged to explain exactly why its actions did not jeopardise the target, or why the target had been put to one side for the time being.
As one liberal history teacher frets: "I can imagine that in a year's time we will be obliged to explain the meaning of the new holiday to first-year pupils".
Indeed, in nine letters since April 2007, Mr King has been obliged to explain why inflation has been above 3%.That inflation has remained stubbornly high in the wake of the most severe recession since the second world war is odd.
Ms Takaichi's office has since been obliged to explain why, with Tomomi Inada, another of Mr Abe's close allies, she appeared in photographs alongside a leading neo-Nazi.
If you seek to buy a secondhand car these days, the salesperson might wheedle and spin, but they will also – thanks to EU consumer protection laws – be obliged to explain the risks and caveats.
The population bomb that didn't go boom! is an anchor tied to the ankle of the global warmers, while people who want to set up China as the new Yellow Peril are obliged to explain why the Rising Sun stopped rising.
If she hadn't, she wouldn't have been obliged to explain where the resulting songs were headed: "They're more for the American version of [Alive]", she said, adding that her US record label bosses "don't feel it's finished yet".
