Obama uses a warped logic of federal noblesse oblige to dispense a bag full of goodies from tuition tax credits, to a mortgage refinancing credit, to public works projects.
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Another is to oblige manufacturers to take back and dispose of certain goods when consumers have finished with them.
The Companies Act could be amended so as to oblige firms to make severance payments proportionate to the departing director's performance.
For instance, the law allows councils to oblige developers to pay towards local infrastructure if they build, say, a new office block.
She was angry that MEPs turned down an opportunity to oblige farmers to earn subsidy by obeying the existing Water Framework Directive and Birds and Habitats Directives.
An all-party report to the parliament of the Netherlands viewed in the past as one of Europe's more liberal regimes recently concluded that 30 years of multicultural policy had failed, and that more efforts should be made to oblige immigrants to learn the Dutch language and embrace local values.
The commission also wants to oblige public companies to establish independent committees to hire and fire auditors, as in America.
Under Lisbon, if one-third of the national parliaments agree on something, they can act together to oblige the Commission to cancel and review a wrong decision.
The guessing is that once the constitution is changed he will seek legislation to oblige political parties to introduce progressively larger quotas for women until equality is achieved.
Like Mr Romney, he has said many things that are now anathema to the base: that government should oblige people to buy health insurance, for example, or that it should do something about global warming.
Solar shares fell some 32% on the NEX in the first quarter of the year and have suffered again in recent weeks, a drop that Prideaux blames on proposals in Germany and Spain to cut generous feed-in tariffs that oblige utilities to buy renewable electricity at above market prices.
It also meant that, when the National Space Council to its credit resuscitated the program, the NASP was "behind the power curve:" the best that could be done was to restore part of its earlier funding, to oblige the Defense Department to reassume its share of the management responsibility and to stretch out the development schedule.
Does this convention oblige us to take actions beyond attacks on ourselves or on our allies?
Loans that local-government leaders oblige banks to make to their favoured enterprises come on top of that.
When I mention that the rule forbidding late-staying guests will now oblige me to leave, they burst out laughing.
Oblige banks to issue a certain amount of debt (say 2% of their assets) that is junior to deposits.
CRD4 will oblige banks to increase the portion of best-quality "core capital" to 4.5%, from the current 2%, that they hold.
And, in the new financial year, changed accounting rules will oblige banks to carry shares on their books at market value.
The court's rules oblige Cambodians to report complaints to their own government.
They dream up new benefits and then oblige towns to provide them.
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The man considered to be Mr Maduro's main rival, National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, tweeted that the results "oblige us to make a profound self-criticism".
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Others, notably the Netherlands and Switzerland, oblige individuals to buy insurance.
For one of the many oddities of open primaries is that they oblige candidates to fight across party lines as well as within their own parties.
The E-Verify law, which has been adopted in several states, would if passed oblige employers to check the legal status of prospective workers against a federal database.
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It would oblige taxpayers to inject more funds into Lloyds and RBS, and that is the very last thing (literally) that the Chancellor wishes to do, and could be career-terminating for him.
Reforms along these lines would oblige people to work longer and encourage them to save more in the end, the only real antidotes to the economic problem posed by an ageing population.
Asked whether councils should oblige builders to plant a certain number of trees in and around new developments, he said this would be "very tough" since every housing project was different.
For US banks in particular, there's an important question whether this encouraged rollover of loans would oblige them to pay out under the credit derivative contracts they may have written to insure the debt.
The increased competitive pressures are also likely to oblige the region's economies to diversify away from commodities in which it anyway faces increasingly fierce competition from larger economies like China and Brazil and into value-added sectors.
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