But he felt the corporation had an obligation to compete fully over the whole spectrum of broadcasting.
Lanier said he disclosed his relationships with Topol in court because he had an obligation to do so.
Those not in school had an obligation to play by the rules when in school, and to cooperate.
"The state knew of the evidence in the personnel file and had an obligation to produce the documents, " Kozinski said.
Mark Sedwill, Nato senior civilian representative to Afghanistan, said all of the country's neighbours had an obligation to prevent weapons falling into insurgent hands.
Naturally, as her manager, I had an obligation to watch her like a hawk after that, which made life miserable for both of us.
He said the BBC had an obligation to ensure value for money for licence fee payers, and a fair and reasonable resolution was needed.
"They had an obligation to look for every other way to get it before they intruded on the freedom of the press, " he told CNN.
New GM no longer had an obligation to support Delphi's pensions.
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"Not only did we have a legal right to fund the research, we had an obligation, " says Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He told the man from the Kremlin that he had an obligation to do whatever he could to provide protection against the deadly and growing menace of missile attack.
He also said he had found it painful "to put youngsters in harm's way, " adding that he had an obligation to make sure lives had not been lost in vain.
You might think that either the hedge fund or the private bank would have believed it had an obligation to disclose the Madoff involvement to its client in explaining his losses.
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The picture Russia presented to the world seemed clear: Georgia was a reckless and dangerous aggressor and Russia had an obligation, as a peacekeeper in the region, to protect the victims.
Editor Davan Maharaj said in comments in an accompanying article that the paper gave the military's request careful consideration, but determined that it had an obligation to publish some of the photos.
Amid reports from Israel that the authorities were moving ahead with plans to expand a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Mr Obama said Israel had an obligation to stop Jewish settlement activity.
As the head of the richest sport in the world, with almost 125 million members, Mr Mosley "had an obligation to honour the standards which its vast membership had every right to expect of him", Mr Myler said.
So we had an obligation to create a better health care system that works for our people, our businesses, and our government alike. (Applause.) And that's why we've been pushing so hard on health care reform.
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So we felt that it was -- concurring with that statute that we had an obligation, independent counsel did, to provide that information directly to the speaker as well as to the Democratic leader, and that is what we did today.
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Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said MPs had "an obligation" to protect the public, especially children and other vulnerable groups, from sex offenders.
Addressing members of the Australia-Ireland fund during a visit to Melbourne on Sunday Bertie Ahern said everyone, including the British and Irish governments, had an absolute obligation to implement all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement.
When the stock dropped in July 2008, he called the broker, and the broker had reassured him by saying the government had an implicit obligation to stand behind Fannie Mae, and the preferred stock was thus safe.
The rich had previously agreed to provide assistance for clean energy and other purposes but had not acknowledged an obligation for fixing the changing climate.
President Obama said that the US had an "unprecedented" "solemn obligation", which was "non-negotiable", to guarantee Israel's security.
It was much more an accepted rule of society that those who did well had a charitable obligation to look after those who were not so fortunate and that charitable assistance often took the form of government operated programs.
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Tom Kline, an attorney for Victim No. 5, told reporters later that his client had no financial interest and "never sought this out, " but considers it "an obligation of citizenship" to testify.
The Supreme Court agreed with Vodafone that the deal isn't subject to capital gains tax and Vodafone therefore had no obligation to withhold tax even though the main asset changing hands was a controlling interest in an Indian cellphone company.
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