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- verb Present participle of
obligate .
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Examples
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Iraq was falling into that exceptional category that Immanuel Kant had identified as obligating the international community to intervene: a failed state, dissolving into anarchy.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Since no one is 'obligating' them to do so, they don't bother to sell any of their large under water OTC long position to match the liquidation of their COMEX short position.
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Since no one is 'obligating' them to do so, they don't bother to sell any of their large under water OTC long position to match the liquidation of their COMEX short position.
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Since no one is 'obligating' them to do so, they don't bother to sell any of their large under water OTC long position to match the liquidation of their COMEX short position.
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"obligating" drywallers to pay each month more than their monthly income for their cruddy California houses.
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If Walstreet reform dies or is weakened to no effect, this simply means Congress chose bribes over doing what they know our national security should be obligating them to do, what anyone with a little education in arithmetic and half a conscience can figure out.
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The question then must be -- who is obligating or demanding these tests?
Major Tea Brand Stops Torturous Animal Testing After PETA Takes Action The Huffington Post 2011
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The question then must be -- who is obligating or demanding these tests?
Major Tea Brand Stops Torturous Animal Testing After PETA Takes Action The Huffington Post 2011
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The NPT was an attempt to make the best of a bad situation by capping the number of nuclear states at five while guaranteeing all other states that signed the treaty access to nuclear energy, as well as obligating the nuclear states to gradually disarm though some feel it only requires that they negotiate "in good faith," not actually disarm.
Russ Wellen: Is "It's Not Fair" a Childish Response to Being Denied Nuclear Weapons? Russ Wellen 2011
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Let's pay more attention to the $10 trillion he's obligating us to over the next decade.
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