Sentence examples for longstanding obligations from inspiring English sources

So what do they make of the country's commitments to American Indians, its longstanding obligations to tribal governments under the Constitution and treaties dating back centuries?

DETROIT — General Motors said Monday that it earned its first quarterly profit since 2007 after last year's government-sponsored bankruptcy allowed the carmaker to wipe away many of its longstanding obligations.

The United Nations Security Council in Resolution 1441 has declared Iraq in material breach of its longstanding obligations; demanded once again Iraq's full and immediate disarmament; and promised serious consequences if the regime refused to comply.

In only two NATO member countries — the US and Canada — did more than half the respondents say that they thought their country should meet its longstanding obligations to militarily defend a NATO ally if it comes under attack.

Some separation is needed, as even Mr. McCall wrote in his resignation letter, between the exchange's business of attracting new companies to list on the Big Board and its longstanding obligation to regulate stock trading.

"The special privileges the U.S. grants to Hong Kong can only endure if Beijing fulfills its longstanding obligation under international law to maintain Hong Kong's autonomy, guarantee human rights and allow free and fair elections in 2017 and beyond," Smith said in a statement issued by the bill's sponsors.

"I'd like to teach till I'm about 70 -- I don't want to burn out before that," he said, adding that he had longstanding "writing obligations".

And his far-reaching budget plans have attracted Tea Party support for the same reason that they have generated such fierce Democratic opposition: because they would go so far in reshaping the country's longstanding fiscal obligations.

The same day his article appeared, the World Trade Organization ruled that the United States had not reformed cotton subsidies sufficiently to meet legal obligations in a longstanding case, leaving American agriculture and other domestic industries vulnerable to significant retaliation by Brazil.

Even a temporary default with a brief interruption in payments that Congress subsequently restores would be terribly damaging, calling into question the willingness of Congress to uphold America's longstanding commitment to meet the obligations of the nation in full and on time.

Wilpon says Doubleday didn't like the results of the appraisal and is using the allegations to avoid his obligations under a longstanding contract that established a process for either man to sell his half of the team.