Sentence examples for direct obligations from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Relationships formed with grandchildren can generate direct obligations to the grandchildren themselves rather than their parents.

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

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

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

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.