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Pleasure is mingled with obligation.
I believe that establishing special days – holidays – as ones laden with obligation puts a counterproductive pressure on us all.
By comparison, friends are better insulated from emotional pressures; their compassion is less likely to be tinged with obligation, let alone tainted by it.
Approaching the discussion of abandonment from this perspective points towards connections between the common law of property and conceptions of ownership that view the latter as a social practice suffused with obligation and duty.
Down south, running a garden centre, supposedly shirking his familial duty, is Max's brother, Bartholomew, but he, too, feels "laden with obligation" – to his parents, their farm, the bank, but most of all his girlfriend, Ruby.
'Have to' and 'must' are concerned with obligation.
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Noncompliance with obligations will impede progress.
The friendship, Mr. Warner quickly learned, came with obligations.
First, chummy relations with the state come with obligations as well as perks.
He relinquished power without a struggle, apparently in accordance with obligations he accepted from the outset.
But the Clintons would like to return to the White House, and that comes with obligations.
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