Even Russia, with its longstanding military relationship with Iraq during Soviet times and its heavy investment in Iraq's oil sector, has signed on to the notion that Mr. Hussein has just one final chance to live up to the obligations given at the end of the Persian Gulf war to disarm and submit to long-term monitoring.
And with all this firepower at hand these three poobahs didn't have the interest nor considered it their obligation, given the billions of help their organizations received, to get a heads up on the weather front moving in.
Was he not under obligation, given the occasion, to travel as fast as he could — get serious out there, before a watching world, and wrestle the record down to something superhuman, around the 9.60 mark?
And how can transferring or revoking it result in an obligation, given Spinoza's utility-based account of obligation?
It can express a practical obligation: given your tastes you'd be remiss if you didn't eat a piece.
The idea that my obligation to not kill my mother gently (say for an inheritance) merely expresses an "ideal" obligation, but not an actual obligation, given that I will kill her, seems hard to swallow.
$Absolute margins are the absolute effects (probabilities) of intention to fulfil the 3-year obligations given the particular variable compared to the probabilities without that variable.
The existence of a prima facie obligation gives one good, but defeasible grounds, for believing that one ought to fulfill that obligation.
(It can't be because the actors have other obligations, given that they're the same ones who appear in the regular universe).
While Sirius Chief Executive Mel Karmazin Mel Karmazin had boasted that the company would meet its debt obligations, given the existing tight credit market, "banks will obviously be gun-shy," Moran said, adding that there remains a chance that Sirius could engage in equity-for-debt swaps or compromise with its bondholders.
