"incur obligations" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to become legally or morally obligated to do something. Example: When you signed the contract, you incurred obligations to fulfill its terms and conditions.
And of course, one can promise successfully (incur obligation by promising) even though one has no intention to perform; so the mental act requisite to obligation is not the intention to perform.
Half of all Americans aged 25 to 29 are unmarried, and many of them already have incurred obligations as partners, parents or both.
"Particularly in the context of the recent controversy about management's emphasis of cash balances, I have a major question about why they continue to release a single line item without context," says Lutin. "They've already incurred obligations to spend much of that cash, but they exclude their liabilities [in the release.]".
First, by violating a provision in a Defense bill restricting the use of funds for the transfer of Guantanamo detainees unless Congress receives 30 days' written notice, Second, by violating the Antideficiency Act, which "prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation".
A report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office GAOO) concluded that the $1 million the administration spent on the transfer violated the law, specifically the notification provision in the NDAA and the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.
They argue that what is crucial to incurring obligation is the 'invitation' to trust that promising embodies, and that as such actual trust isn't necessary to generate the obligation (Southwood and Freiderich 2011: 278 ff).
Indeed, insofar as we incur moral obligations in accepting or receiving favors, we might even find pleasure or pride in such obligations.
The institute does not encourage domestic partnership or cohabitation as an alternative to marriage, but says that domestic partners, like spouses, incur economic obligations to each other when they live together for any significant time.
They believed that the rate of interest simply followed the rate of profit, for people would not borrow or incur contractual obligations unless they could earn something more than the cost of the borrowing by investing the proceeds in enterprises or aggregates of real capital.
