"I am of the view any success in this process is directly linked to industrialized countries taking deeper and more robust obligations under the Kyoto Protocol," Vargas said, referring to the 1997 climate pact that takes effect next year and expires in 2012.
Believing people are political animals, modern American liberals believe in a robust moral obligation to other Americans, as members of a common political community (more about the rest of the world tomorrow).
As a consequence, left institutionalists generally argue for more robust distributive obligations and more radical institutional changes than right institutionalists even though the extent and nature of those obligations varies from thinker to thinker.
However, they argue that the nature of the global economic system also gives rise to robust distributive obligations.
First, left institutionalists tend to argue for more robust distributive obligations that operate directly on the institutions that characterize international politics.
Those obligations include a robust plan that can survive agitation from angry hedge funds which wish they'd punted on Interserve's debt rather than its equity.
William Hill said it had "robust systems" to meet its regulatory obligations.
If our aim was to develop a robust philosophic account of observational researchers' obligations, this objection might carry some weight.
Mr Rudd said he had a responsibility to ensure Australia had a robust system of border security while meeting its legal obligations under the refugee convention.
This way, it is a responsibility of the consumer to make the best choice by comparing the alternatives available and an obligation of the provider to deploy highly robust Web services.
It is then just natural to think on combining simple modal logics for knowledge, belief, obligation, capability, opportunity, etc., so as to define more robust BDI logics.
