"The rules and warnings only heightened the obligation we already felt to maintain confidentiality born out of our respect for the Supreme Court and our desire to protect it," he said.
Meanwhile, Ono's twin affiliations to opera and to the orchestral repertoire - he has just ended a successful period in Brussels and embarked on one at Lyon - may have heightened his sense of obligation to Mahler.
Second, beside their heightened sense of moral obligation towards shareholders (i.e. this is a demonstration of owner primacy), the case mining companies tended to demonstrate greater sense of moral responsibility towards stakeholders who were geographically and/or relationally closer to their facilities than similar but distant ones.
Better and more comprehensive counseling of young men and women, starting among preteenagers, can help reduce the number of single mothers, and heightened enforcement of parental-support obligations can ease their financial struggles.
Children are especially vulnerable as they are likely to be more trusting and less canny than adults, and this heightens the general obligation to be truthful, keep promises and so forth.
The Sarbanes/Oxley disclosure penalties do not apply to municipalities, but they certainly heightened everyone's awareness of the obligation to make full disclosures.
In sum, we find heightened disclosure in the place where legal obligations (and investor needs) for disclosure are less significant and no disclosure in the place where legal obligations (and investor needs) for disclosure are more significant.
"But the obligation to tell the truth is heightened when one is proposing to start a war as opposed to proposing to put a television spot up".
No more so than in the financial services industry where there exists a heavy compliance obligation and a regulatory environment that is heightened post-financial crisis and scandals such as LIBOR.
Those developments heightened concerns about the country's ability to meet refinancing obligations.
But recovery of that money has been thrown into doubt, heightening concern over financial obligations that troubled telephone upstarts may not be able to honor with Lucent.
