Sentence examples for direct obligation from inspiring English sources

The deal imposed no direct obligation on the Nato-led peacekeepers to arrest war criminals.

In example 22a with a non-overt causative/agentive addressee subject, 必 bì has a deontic reading, conveying a direct obligation to the addressee.

Ford Money Market Account is a direct obligation of Ford Motor Credit Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Co". Double-talk.

Generic readings can appear as a subclass of deontic readings (Leiss 2008: 23).42 In the examples in 13, the subject is agentive and accordingly [+HUMAN]; in 13b, the speaker puts a direct obligation on the addressee subject.

Yet I wonder, especially when it comes to serious writing, whether this competition also brings something less dispiriting into play: a direct obligation towards your audience that was too often lacking in pre-digital times.

Deontic modal values (obligation) can be expressed indirectly with the auxiliary verb 可 kě yǐ) 'can' in combination with double negation 不可不 bù kě yǐ) bù 'cannot not >>> must'.37 The only auxiliary verb expressing a direct obligation in an affirmative sentence is the auxiliary verb 必 bì 'must'.38 As a modal verb, it conveys deontic modality in the strict sense.

The source of legitimacy for the imposition of direct obligations on non-state actors at the international level without their participation therefore raises some questions.

After the Han period, the employment of 當 dāng changes, and in the Buddhist literature, 當 dāng tends to express more direct obligations, i.e. performatives.

States have shown a reluctance to impose direct obligations on non-state actors under both spheres of law, resulting in the (deliberate) gaps in the obligations of state vs. non-state actors.

Asset-backed commerical paper is a distant cousin of mortgage-backed securities, with both deriving their debt service from third-party borrowers repaying their loans rather than direct obligations of the issuer.

In a separate action designed to kick-start the housing market, the Fed also announced Tuesday that it is beginning a new program to buy $100 billion in direct obligations of government-controlled mortgage buyers Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks.