Sentence examples for Communal obligation from inspiring English sources
Communal obligation, meaning that some Muslims but not all must do it.
We justify it by showing how it is a kind of "associative" or "communal" obligation constitutive of a certain kind of community.
Jews give out of communal obligation.
The sense of religious and communal obligation has its fiduciary advantages to Mr. Ranzini.
A stirring montage of Philadelphia street life, accompanied by a mournfully beautiful new Bruce Springsteen song, offers a resounding sense of vitality and communal obligation.
The cremation dispute goes to the heart of a debate among Muslims in America about what makes someone a Muslim — to some of the critics, the fact that Shafayet Reja listed Islam as his religion on Facebook is enough — and how to reconcile this country's freedom of religion with what some Muslims see as a communal obligation to uphold religious observance.
(President Obama's budget speech today wasn't as compact, emotionally, as the surly-bonds speech, or as philosophical as the one he gave after the Giffords shooting. But it was as moving a statement of commitment to communal obligations — to the old and sick and poor — as we've heard from him in a while).
In economic terms, investment in childcare is increasingly seen in some countries as more cost-effective and more flexible if undertaken by entrepreneurs rather than by the state; rearing young children is seen not as a communal obligation-like education- but as the financial responsibility of parents, who must bear, if not all, then the bulk of the costs.
When we draw together these two threads--the forgetful wilderness and the life of piety as bound up with communal obligation--we can observe what or who is forgotten along our journeys, the result of either worries and travail--or equally, success and apathy.
We need to do exactly what Bruce said: stay conscious of our communal obligations and responsibilities.
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