In my view, he has an even stronger obligation stemming from the fact he has said many things that cause one group of people to turn against another group of people.
Alfano said: "What will be done now is what was always done at sea until October last year: obligations stemming from the laws of the sea will be respected.
Yesterday's announcement gave no financial details, but said that NASD would "satisfy its remaining contractual obligations stemming from the original 1998 transaction" and "provide other financing to strengthen Amex's balance sheet".
The referendum is being closely watched abroad, where the worry is that people in other financially flailing countries might be emboldened to rise up and refuse to honor financial obligations stemming from the failures of their banks.
For an excellent overview of these issues see Vitek (1993: 118) In addition to this work, there is also a corpus of work on promises in game theory and economic theory, stemming from the contractarian project of grounding promissory obligation in self-interested rationality.
With a new $115 parking ticket in hand that seemed to grow on my windshield overnight, I was relieved to read that my summons didn't stem from the traffic agent's obligation to fulfill a quota.
Lin said the loss was mainly attributable to nonrecurring charges of $292.9 million stemming from its obligations in McCaw's tender offer.
Yet, much of our foundational thinking about morality, obligation, and duty stems from the imprints of ancient moral philosophy.
At the international level, in the absence of an elected world government, the legitimacy of obligations stems from the sovereign equality of states and the fact that they bind only themselves through the creation and adoption of international norms.
The motivation, he said, stemmed from the belief that "lawmakers have an obligation to tell their constituents how they intend to vote or how they feel about this issue".
The trouble stems from the banks' significant involvement in collateralized debt obligations, which raise money by selling bonds to investors and using the proceeds to buy other bonds, many of which are backed by subprime home loans.
