Can Germany define the obligations of its new arrivals before it decides what it wants for itself?
The law, prompted by abuses in the operation of pension plans, also defines the obligations of the people who manage employer-sponsored health plans for more than 160 million Americans.
In 1726, a new statute defining the obligations and responsibilities of the heads of the institutions was introduced.
Yes, implementing the CRC is a government's obligation, but the CRC also defines the obligations and responsibilities of a range of other actors: parents, teachers, health workers, scientists, researchers and children themselves.
In the Capitol and other prominent foreign policy forums here, lawmakers wrestled to define the role and obligations of the United States as the lone remaining superpower in a world reshaped by Sept. 11.
But during the post-cold-war 1990s, as America's foreign-policy establishment struggled to define the nation's obligations to the rest of the world, McCain went through his own kind of inner journey, seeking some balance between the legacy of Vietnam and the pull of new crises around the globe — crises born of savagery and rife with human consequence.
In an effort to clarify and define the rights and obligations of British citizenship, Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently invited the British public to help its government develop "a statement of British values": as a Scot at a time when Scots in England are not as popular as they used to be, reviving the waning idea of an inclusive British identity is useful to him.
It was created to serve as IOC law, establish some key princples, and define the rights and obligations of the four main constituents of the Olympic movement: the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Federations and the National Olympic Committees, and the Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games.
"The rationale for this requirement is that the governing documents define the scope of monetary obligations which co-op shareholders or condominium unit owner agrees to when they buy into a building," Mr. Cholst said.
General Comment 3 elucidates a series of concepts and principles that define the nature of states' obligations, including the principle of non-discrimination, the principle of non-retrogression (a state must not take steps backwards), and the concept of core obligations.
