Conditions could of course be attached to their sale, obliging them to maintain their geographic coverage.
Crucially, participants are set to sign a protocol obliging businesses to inform the public of their toxic emissions, and will decide on a common environmental strategy and compensations practice in the case of accidents.
Last autumn Mr Chirac made the mistake of writing to Bill Clinton about the Naples command, obliging him to take a position before the issue had been discussed at a lower level.
The government says it will soon publish revised guidance, encouraging local authorities to use risk-free land first, and obliging developers to pay for flood defences when they build on risky land.
To induce the Democrats to return, the Senate Republicans have passed a rule obliging them to collect their paychecks in person at the capitol.
Certain strictures, like obliging men to wear traditional robes, are a small price to pay.
At some stage prices will fall, obliging consumers to save much more and spend less.
Developers also say the rule obliging them to create social housing as part of private developments makes some schemes unviable.
Conversely, Millennials will not have this luxury, obliging them to independently evaluate the intentions, ideology and pragmatism of each Islamist group.
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"It is only us taking the commercial initiative that is obliging regulators to act to harmonise, " Mr Cruickshank told the Today programme.
The PBOC also raised reserve requirements on banks six times in 2010, obliging them to set aside 18.5% of their deposits, a record ratio.
Mr Mehlis's report also politely but firmly chides Syria for stalling, despite a UN Security Council resolution obliging it to co-operate fully with the investigation.
The youth-offender teams would supervise a range of new punishments, including reparation orders obliging children to confront the victims of their crimes or to perform community service in recompense.
American states in the late 19th century treated telegraph lines as common carriers, obliging them to carry dispatches from any person and from any other line at consistent rates.
Since mid-1996, when Mr Klaus's lot won a general election obliging him to run an unwieldy and fractious coalition government without a majority in parliament, the country has drifted.
For example, Mr Alito's vote was decisive in upholding a rule in Kansas obliging jurors to impose the death penalty in murder cases where they deem aggravating and mitigating factors to be of equal weight.
Despite the interventions of news organizations, including the Times, which argued that obliging Berlinger to turn over the footage would set a dangerous precedent, both the judge, Lewis Kaplan, and an appeals court sided with Chevron.
On 28 July 2010, Catalonia's parliament, after long debate (under Spanish law, citizens who collect at least 50, 000 signatures within 120 days in support of a proposed change in the law may present that petition to the regional parliament, obliging the latter to debate and vote on the proposal) voted 68 to 55 (with nine abstentions) in favour of banning bullfighting in Catalonia.
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In theory it may be possible, as France's foreign minister has argued, to obtain a United Nations' resolution obliging the junta to accept aid.
It has long denied biographers access to her correspondence, diaries and journals, thus obliging Mr Schultz to rely on fragments released for an exhibition in 2006.
When efforts to reach a compromise failed, Jewish groups went public, obliging Iranian officials to confirm the arrests.
Some copyright owners in Europe and the US are using IP addresses gathered by monitoring firms to apply for court orders obliging internet service providers to hand over the physical addresses associated with them.
Government spokesman Lord Taylor of Holbeach stopped short of promising to amend the bill, but conceded there was "merit" in the idea of obliging local authorities to have a code of conduct.
In an apparent effort to regain the political initiative, Mr Hollande's government is also planning to table new laws obliging all members of parliament to declare their assets.
As a result, St Marc's hospital has been inundated with cholera cases, obliging other patients to go elsewhere.
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Mr Levitt took an important step in 2000 when he introduced a rule obliging public firms to disclose information to all investors simultaneously.
Since it has been wetter than usual, farmers have had a hard time drying their harvest, obliging them either to store it wet or dump it on the market.
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But it means that public services have had three very thin years, obliging false economies to be made, followed now by four very fat ones, causing money to be wasted.
With hindsight, it is evident that encouraging U.S. investments in such nations by obliging the taxpayer to assume the risks of doing business there has not necessarily led to either structural economic or political reform.
It also is obliging Boris Yeltsin to participate in such a bidding process -- adding greatly to the already immense costs to Russia and the other new states of sustaining the military-industrial complex which should be the first to go over the budgetary side.
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