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.
Can Germany define the obligations of its new arrivals before it decides what it wants for itself?
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.
The ambiguity identified by the state supreme court arose from two Florida statutes that define the obligation of the county canvassing boards to transmit their certifications to the secretary of state.
Although beyond the immediate scope of the paper, the humanitarian and legal implications of defining the occupation and obligations under international law have been presented in a variety of forms (e.g., Cohen and Arieli 2005; Droege 2007; Gross 2007; Darcy and Reynolds 2010; Kretzmer 2012; Greenblatt 2014).
There are equally vigorous secular arguments defining the same moral obligation.
The law of war defines the legal obligations that apply in the medical treatment of detainees by direct reference to international standards of medical ethics.
Confucianism defines the role obligations of superiors and inferiors, according to which superiors should treat inferiors with kindness and benevolence, while inferiors reciprocate with deference, loyalty and obedience.
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.
