obligate


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Synonyms for obligate

to be morally bound to do

to cause (a person or thing) to act or move in spite of resistance

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Synonyms for obligate

commit in order to fulfill an obligation

bind by an obligation

restricted to a particular condition of life

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Once they have completed the GSA/IA assignment, they will fall under current detailing and extension policies, Sailors choosing not to obligate for the required 24 months but have more than 12 months of contract time left.
In addition, the NMB did not have to obligate funds for arbitrators for pending cases, since those were properly characterized as contingent liabilities.
Thus, Calvin explicitly rejected the notion that anyone could obligate God in any way.
* The Secretary may not obligate or expend any of the above funds until fifteen days after the submission of a certification to Congress, to include:
He acids that he never used the term obligate to describe hyena siblicide.
1) Rashi and Tosafot hold that, since prayer is rabbinically ordained, its originators have the right to obligate women for whatever reason they see fit.(9) It follows that the tefillah that the Mishnah obligates women to recite is exactly the same one that men are obligated to recite, and that both must recite it with the same frequency.
The USAID mission in Tel Aviv reported that it plans to obligate the remaining $8.3 million in fiscal year 2009 ESF funds prior to the end of fiscal year 2010.
Such findings do not obligate EPA to withdraw its proposed ban.
Congress asked that we assess (1) the total amount of TAA training funds states actually had available in fiscal year 2007, (2) the process states use to obligate training funds and how they manage these obligations, and (3) the amount of National Emergency Grants (NEG) funds that have been awarded for TAA during the past 3 fiscal years.