Sentence examples for clearly defined obligations from inspiring English sources

"I call on people to believe in the sincerity of President Medvedev's attempts, but not to accept desires and simulations in the place of clearly defined obligations and working institutions," Mr. Khodorkovsky, now 47, wrote.

And unlike other TARP programs, including Obama's HAMP initiative, the Ohio government actually requires banks to sign a legally binding contract with the state, creating clearly defined obligations: the bank gets money, but the mortgage must be modified.

The Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 256 bce) was founded on the feudalistic principle of a sociopolitical hierarchy, with clearly defined prerogatives and obligations between those of high and low status.

While BP continues to acknowledge its responsibility to shut off and clean up the oil, it is being barraged by government officials and civil lawyers who are redoubling efforts to ensure that the company's legal obligations are clearly defined and strictly enforced.

Despite increasing knowledge of the closeness of human and animal destiny, the "mutual obligation" so clearly defined by Charron is slow to advance.

The right person can come from the political ranks or the military and so would have a clearly defined public role that might confer an obligation to prevent harm to the state.

Not by coincidence, Philipp Hildebrand, vice president of the Swiss National Bank, noted on a June 18 speech: "The lack of any clearly defined and internationally coordinated wind-down procedure contributes to a de facto obligation on the part of the state to provide assistance to these institutions".

Can it be clearly defined?

That clearly defined mission never materialized.

Our responsibilities will be more clearly defined.

But "clean" has never been clearly defined.