Sentence examples for pre-existing obligations from inspiring English sources

"The Senate has no more important task than making sure the United States does not fail to pay our bills for pre-existing obligations like Social Security for the first time in our history," he said in a statement.

This is about bills that are due for pre-existing obligations," Reid said, citing funds for troops, seniors and kids.

The Court ruled that the Louisiana Constitution and the New Orleans ordinances did not impermissibly impair a pre-existing obligation under a contract when those laws effectively ended a slaughter-house business monopoly by the Crescent City Company.

"In general, you can do anything you like, so long as you do not breach pre-existing international obligations".

State-related debt has gone from a little over $7 billion to about $1 billion because we have paid off almost $6 billion in the pre-existing moral obligation debt.

The new law "should not be read as directing or authorizing HUD to breach a pre-existing binding contractual obligation to make payments to Acorn or its affiliates, subsidiaries or allied organizations where doing so would give rise to contractual liability," Mr. Barron wrote.

The proposed whistleblower program won't permit payment to people owing a pre-existing legal or contractual obligation to report their information.

The outcome highlights the importance of careful drafting of confidentiality agreements, and the need for companies to regularly monitor compliance with their obligations under pre-existing agreements.

I predict and, using an experiment, find that the level of fixed compensation paid to workers and the extent to which they believe reporting internal misconduct constitutes a moral obligation affect the pre-existing rate of internal whistleblowing, with the rate increasing as these two factors increase.

[Caregiver, control unit A] Willingness to participate in training was partly influenced by pre-existing relationships between patients and caregivers and partly by perceptions of social obligations and prior caring experiences.

Indeed, it is the obligation of law to properly capture any such pre-existing rights from what a number of philosophers regard as our "natural state".