Sentence examples for obligations both from inspiring English sources

The argument is that it could rely on its rights under a bilateral agreement signed in 1979; or, failing this, that the annual review (with implicit threat of sanctions) of China's status is anyway consistent with the obligations both countries undertake as members of the WTO.

Now, in the midst of a debate about recently incurred Greek debts, the government in Athens suddenly wants Germany to settle some much older obligations, both financial and moral, as well.Germans don't like being reminded of the past by others, because they have their own very formal rituals of recollection.

But they move it to after the election, then it says in the bill, prior to Jan . 1the committee may spend such funds to retire outstanding debts or obligations, both soft and hard money, that are incurred prior to such effective date, Election Day, so long as such debts and obligations were incurred solely in connection with an election held on or before Nov. 5.

This condition is not satisfied when two otherwise unrelated agents happen to have obligations both of which cannot be discharged.

Capital adequacy is the availability of funds necessary for a company to meet its foreseen as well as unforeseen obligations both short term and long term.

While I indeed have prima facie obligations both to return the gun and to not return it, the only actual obligation I have in the circumstances that were described is the obligation to not return the gun.

To be truly ethical, consumers have an obligation both ways.

To them it is an obligation both moral and pragmatic.

There is an obligation, both moral and legal, to try and do something".

To be pleasant in public (a public that may even include one's family!) is an obligation both honorable and essential.

I think something on this magnitude, there is an obligation, both moral but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.