The phrase "impose obligations to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to indicate that a particular party is required to comply with a certain set of laws or regulations. For example: "The treaty imposed obligations to both countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions."
The problem, according to Hart, is that one typically thinks of law as, at least sometimes, imposing obligations to act (or not to act) in certain ways.
Christine Varney, the head of the antitrust division at the United States Justice Department, warned European regulators in a speech on Monday to restrict imposing obligations to the European Union on American companies that are doing business globally.
One fear is that inflexible positions on both sides will kill the Kyoto Protocol (the only legally binding treaty that imposes obligations to reduce carbon emissions on 37 industrialized countries) after its first term expires in 2012.
The main elements of the proposal consist of updating the water quality standards, introducing a risk-based approach to the monitoring of water, improving and streamlining the information provided to consumers, harmonising the standards for products in contact with drinking water, and imposing obligations to improve access to water.
Nevertheless, as per the approach taken by the Inter-American Court (discussed above), which would read some economic, social and cultural rights into the right to life, the deeds could be interpreted to impose obligations on NSAGs to contribute to the realisation of subsistence rights.
It specifically flags up clause 189 in the draft bill, noting that this permits the Secretary of State to impose obligations "relating to the removal of electronic protection applied by a relevant operator to any communications or data".
Without being able to solve this assurance problem it would be unjust to impose obligations on them, and unjust to demand their obedience.
The judge's order for the city to provide eviction notices to Legal Aid was part of a "pernicious tendency" to impose "obligations beyond those that the city agreed to undertake," Mr. Crane said.
The former judgement rolled back an earlier EU directive aimed at harmonizing data retention regimes across the bloc by asking Member States to impose obligations on providers of comms services to retain certain types of data for a period of between six months and two years.
"If such legislation were passed, it would allow us, at European level, to impose obligations on operators that uncooperative disclose such to remove illegal content or decrypt messages, exclusively in the context of criminal investigations," added Cazeneuve.
We cannot presume that the Massachusetts Legislature intended by its use of such general terms as 'uphold,'defendnd,' and 'oppose' to impose obligations of specific, positive action on oath takers.
