Sentence examples for firm obligations from inspiring English sources

"It puts them in a really bad spot because they have these obligations that are iron clad firm obligations to employees," Mr. Nation said.

But it establishes no firm obligation of equal exposure — allowing campaigns amplified by "super PACs" to flood the airwaves — and effectively places no limits on news coverage.

And grandiose attempts to explain conscience and reason in purely biological and material terms still leave us with little in the way of moral guidance — without a firm obligation to care for the earth and for our fellow creatures.

Although no firm obligation was placed on the state, this allowed subsequent governments to support minority schools.

Taking the initiative to repay some investors will not affect the firms' obligations, an NASD spokeswoman, Nancy Condon, said.

Assuming the tactic works without erasing phone data, it also means the government is still likely to want the courts or Congress to set firm rules about technology firms' obligations to assist investigations in cases involving encryption.

This legal component recognises the firms' obligations to obey the relevant laws in the countries where they are trading.

In Lyle Denniston's words, "In some sense, the grant had the appearance of a new attempt to impose some firmer obligations on the New Orleans prosecutors to obey the Brady mandate".

It is meant to generate proceeds to help pay down the firm's obligations to the federal government.

By the following Monday, when MF Global had to declare bankruptcy, about $900 million in customers' money had been taken and dispersed to meet the firm's obligations.

For example, a limited partnership may often be formed so that certain partners designated as limited as opposed to general are liable for the firm's obligations only to the extent of their contribution to the firm's capital.