These are merely ways of weakening the inspection system and avoiding Iraqi obligations.

Some dealers pretend to be private sellers to avoid legal obligations and to sell problematic cars to unsuspecting buyers.

Argentines are notorious for avoiding taxes and other obligations to society.

The judge called the charges against the producers a "creative attempt to avoid contractual obligations."

She made it a rule to avoid organizational obligations except to the blind.

Many older women are interested in companionship but may want to avoid long-term obligations and are hesitant to give up their new independence.

Another has been the decision not to produce his work himself, to avoid the endless fund raising and crippling financial obligations of the 1976 "Einstein."

Church officials decided on the sale to avoid financial obligations they feared they might not be able to meet.

When the company closes it may need a "death certificate" to avoid further legal obligations.

Intuitively we react to those who avoid obligations as being irresponsible and childlike.