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Harm can also result from a failure to meet an obligation.

Meeting an obligation to threaten, or to make peace, took much less time than before.

He said his proposal was designed to meet an obligation that dates back 98 years.

Nero Wolfe has a right to meet an obligation to a man.

The problem of rising health care costs raises issues of American competitiveness as companies struggle to meet an obligation met by governments in other countries.

A default is a failure - to fulfill a duty, to meet an obligation, to appear in court, to pay what is owed.

If you fail to meet an obligation required under your IPR authorisation you may be denied relief of duty.

Certificates may be used as evidence of meeting an obligation either for the obligation period for which they were awarded, or for up to 25% of an obligation in the following obligation period.

US Airways executives said they would complete the plan, which will outline the airline's strategy to emerge from bankruptcy and compete with low-cost carriers, by mid-February to meet an obligation to General Electric, which is providing financing.

That was a new detail that helped the government meet an obligation imposed by the judge that very morning, when Gutierrez ruled that the government had to prove Crippen knew he was breaking the law by modding Xboxes.

It was a foolish boast to speak of making someone meet an obligation they had not acknowledged, yet in the angry mutters from the other women, Sevanna heard other furious promises to make the Aes Sedai meet toh.

Provisionally, the militia's establishment could be maintained by a compulsory ballot among men of certain ages who could be compelled to fight, albeit within certain prescribed territorial limits, and who were generally considered to be engaged for a fixed period of service to meet an obligation.

I have always taken for granted that if I could not meet an obligation I had entered into, whether because of redundancy, ill health, an unexpected quadrupling of interest rates or any other reason, I would have to sell my house and find somewhere more appropriate to my changed circumstances.

The law fulfilled an obligation imposed in a 1991 Council resolution.

Diego thanked him with all his heart, but the captain replied that he was merely fulfilling an obligation.

They were the only group in the United States that had an obligation, and fulfilled an obligation, to buy when everyone else was selling."

(PL) Madam President, a customer who pays an agreed price has fulfilled an obligation.

As he recounted that memory the other day, he made it sound as if he had merely been fulfilling an obligation.

Everyone will agree that in doing the job of a juror, a councillor, a telegraph clerk, we feel that we are fulfilling an obligation.

Clearly the use of tombstones is held in the same regards as it is today - the living fulfilling an obligation of respect to the deceased.

Nero decides the Doctor must fulfil an obligation too, and organizes a banquet in his honour at which he must play the lyre.

Furthermore, this move fulfils an obligation to The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of AHP's largest donors, to set up an independent entity.

Fulfilling an Obligation But General Powell's supporters say that he and the other Chiefs were fulfilling their obligation to give the President their honest assessment.

The owner contended that it had fulfilled an obligation to maintain the building in the state of repair that existed at the time of its landmark designation in 1970.

He had nobly fulfilled an obligation towards two unfortunate children; it was not for him to injure his own work by forbidding the benefit of a doubt to the person investigated.

Another provision in the draft gives each of the contracting parties the right to take suitable measures if it considers that the other party has omitted to fulfil an obligation under the Agreement.

Later that year, she returned to Los Angeles, where she began fulfilling an obligation of the Runaways' to complete a film-loosely based on the band's career-called We're All Crazee Now!

By proceeding in this way, we would be in danger of endorsing a scenario in which a Member State is found guilty of an infringement on a purely objective basis, simply because it has not yet objectively fulfilled an obligation arising from European law.

In both plays, Shakespeare appears to be poking mild fun at the amateur police forces of his day, in which respectable citizens spent a fixed number of nights per year fulfilling an obligation to protect the public peace, a job for which they were, by and large, unqualified.

When the Saito Kinen Orchestra makes its American debut at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening with Seiji Oza wa as conductor and Isaac Stern as soloist, it will be fulfilling an obligation and a dream.

Both the PCA and the Interim Agreement have a clause to the effect that, if either party considers that the other party has failed to fulfil an obligation under the agreement, it may take appropriate measures, which in cases of special urgency it can do without even first consulting the joint committee.