Sentence examples for it is obligated from inspiring English sources
Under accounting rules, to the degree that investment growth swells a pension fund's assets beyond its liabilities -- what it is obligated to pay pensioners -- the gains can feed directly into the profits of a company.
It wants more of the cash to go into destroying its vast stockpiles of chemical weapons (which it is obligated to get rid of under the Chemical Weapons Convention) and dismantling decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines (an acknowledged environmental hazard).
As a REIT, a publicly traded company that owns income-producing real estate, it is obligated to distribute at least 90percentt of its taxable income to shareholders in the form of dividends.
It is obligated to put at least seven games in prime time before the playoffs.
However, the bank did set aside about $1 billion to cover faulty mortgages that it is obligated to repurchase from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private insurers.
But it is obligated to employ the number of singers "as is necessary to perform the supporting roles in each opera".
"Because of what's going on in America, every employer, regardless of its financial wherewithal, believes it's obligated to cut the costs of front-line employees," Mr. Cohen said.
He said AT&T was reviewing its contract with Microsoft to determine whether it was obligated to make room for it as a result of the original DTC-5000 commitment.
In another example, insurer John Hancock Financial Services explained that it was obligated to shareholders to sell its downtown Boston office buildings because it would be irresponsible not to take advantage of the current real estate market.
On Wednesday, JPMorgan said it had added $1 billion to its reserves to cover faulty home loans that it was obligated to repurchase from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private insurers.
Swift has said that its role in the program was never voluntary, but that it was obligated to comply with a valid subpoena, and had worked to narrow the range of data it provided to American officials.
