Sentence examples for welfare obligations from inspiring English sources

Detroit's carmakers needed to enter (or flirt with) bankruptcy before their welfare obligations could be watered down.

Whether in Spain, France or Italy, European nations remain saddled with heavy welfare obligations -- ones that inevitably must be curtailed to meet ambitious deficit targets, even as their tax revenue is constrained by low economic growth.

A longer school day costs more, but the number of adults freed to find full-time work (with more opportunity for health benefits and pension plans) could increase the tax base and decrease welfare obligations.

His bold strategy seemed to turn 40 years of Aboriginal politics on its head with a pronounced rightwing twist: instead of self-determination, a new paternalism; instead of rights, duties; instead of welfare, obligations.

Worst of all, the balance-sheet has a whiff of Detroit's carmakers: a shrunken business supporting gigantic welfare obligations.BT has a world-class pension problem.

Thus, claims about what human beings need are relevant reasons in moral arguments about welfare obligations, but not for supporting the truth claim that quarks exist.

Some have said that this transfer of a welfare obligation compromises the BBC's independence.

It will simply top up the contributions of those people as a welfare obligation".

Companies could no longer keep lifetime promises to workers yet the government failed to take over social-welfare obligations.

He works broadly in ethics and political philosophy, with published articles on issues including metaethical expressivism, the relationship between beliefs and desires, connections between contractualist political philosophy and utilitarianism, the justification of domestic welfare policy, obligations to the global poor, socially responsible investing, and physician-assisted dying.

It's not that the principles of terms such as "reciprocal obligation' or "welfare to work" or "mutual obligation" are not defensible, but they have been distorted to the point where it is not only welfare groups saying they are broken.