He has no small obligation to me, but being called in some of the foolish printed papers 'the famous Captain Benbow', I suppose has put him a little out of himself, and has made him play the fool, as I guess, in some of his letters.
The changes result from allowing some additional lofts and cavity walls in low-income areas to become eligible for the new, smaller, obligation scheme called Eco (energy company obligation).
But while Olive was willing to be defined by whoever claimed to love her, Ronnie was a five-star con man endowed with the unfortunate gift of awakening love in men and women equally without feeling the smallest obligation to return it.
After all, as Lord Clyde observed, in a 1929 British tax case: "No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores".
To call men of smaller official obligations, carried out in the face of intimidation, heroes is, perhaps, to change the meaning of what we mean by heroism.
Along the way, we can expect state governments to threaten and bluff their way toward a smaller Medicaid obligation.
By 2005, however, the trust's assets were smaller than its obligations.
It seems a shame he doesn't feel the same small sense of obligation.
You don't want to own a very, very small, local, general obligation credit where you may have an overconcentration in one taxpayer.
For starters, the obligations on small companies are less onerous than for large ones.
