The point is straightforward.
This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies.
In precisely the same spirit, the tax credit system will be partly replaced by a very straightforward new obligation upon employers to pay their staff decently.
Germany, the most biofuelled nation in Europe, has replaced a tax break with a straightforward legal obligation for refiners to blend a certain proportion of biofuels into their wares.
"WestLB's conduct is an outrageous attempt to get out of a straightforward letter of credit obligation," Ms. Lemkau, the spokeswoman, said.
Similarly, Ms. Furniss, her colleague at Stribling, said: "If you have an entry-level couple and their finances are sort of on the edge, if their letters all say they're honest and straightforward and always meet their obligations personally and financially, that can tip it right over into their favor.
Second, and less straightforward, is the rollback of obligations on the part of Charter Cable.
Don't we have a right and obligation to demand a straightforward and concrete accounting of what the additional bloodshed is purportedly going to achieve?
The most straightforward cases are those where we acquire obligations as the result of particular actions which we voluntarily perform.
And official acts of legal pardon are strikingly similar to such straightforward acts of forgiving as remitting a debtor's financial obligation by simply waiving it.
Perhaps the largest protection against a repeat of Arkansas 1933 is the simplest: states have straightforward — if not always politically palatable — ways to pay their obligations if problems arise.
