And Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff has said that the city and state's financial obligation will not exceed that amount.

It blamed its collapse on the burden of its employee pension plan, whose obligations now exceed assets by an estimated $270 million.

The obligations currently exceed $1 billion.

From another perspective, Social Security's obligations to future retirees so greatly exceed its projected receipts that the system cannot and should not be maintained as a mammoth Government entitlement.

He also expressed alarm about private pension plans whose obligations far exceeded their assets, creating large potential liabilities for the federal corporation that guarantees pension benefits.

Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency.

For example, one ongoing project (funded by the Abell Foundation) works to decrease employment barriers to 45,000 non-custodial fathers in Baltimore whose child-support obligations (especially money owed to the state) exceed their ability to pay.

By the end of last year, our obligations to foreigners exceeded theirs to us by more than $200 billion.

So, for the average person, financial obligations exceed income by a ratio of more than six to one.

The obligation to remove barriers will never exceed the level of access required under the alterations standard (or the new construction standard if ADAAG does not provide specific standards for alterations).