"As an attorney, if you believe your client is giving you information that would lead to imminent death, you have an ethical obligation to report that," she said.
Because the companies and individuals who buy them sign multiyear contracts, the Mets are in no imminent danger of failing to meet their obligations to bondholders.
A major state agency, the Urban Development Corporation, financed by a gimmick called "moral obligation bonds" that did not obligate the agency to pay off its debt, was out of cash and facing imminent default.
Yet the U.S. claims to have no money available to meet its obligation to help developing countries prepare for an imminent climate crisis that is largely the making of the industrialized world.
In marijuana cases, as in all others, caseworkers have the obligation to remove children who they believe are in imminent danger, but they can recommend that the agency file neglect charges against the parents without removing the children.
Indeed, the next wave of UK policy uncertainty is imminent, with the roll-out of competition-based "Contracts for Difference" (the replacement for Renewables Obligation Certificates), expected in October.
However, wherever there is a direct, imminent threat to the physical welfare of others (including the child) the state does have the obligation to intercede.
"In the face of this imminent state of war, this very serious threat to our independence and territorial integrity, we have an obligation to resort to the United Nations Security Council," said Foreign Minister Hor Namhong of Cambodia.
Obligation is not suspended, till the danger is become real, & the moment of it so imminent, that we can no longer avoid decision without forever losing the opportunity to do it.
Regardless of how catastrophic or imminent one believes the threats are, and regardless of whether American legitimacy can be retrieved abroad, the government has an obligation to protect its citizens and its infrastructure from future attack.
As soon as the news broke that an executive order on the point of obligation was imminent and that Icahn and Dinneen had reached a deal prices of RINs plummeted.
