Sentence examples for a practical obligation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gore, who has begun some transition planning, has a practical obligation if he wins to calm G.O.P. anger by building coalitions.

It can express a practical obligation: given your tastes you'd be remiss if you didn't eat a piece.

This is a highly practical obligation in which all persons of good will can share.

Another thought of himself as a cultural warrior, not a holy warrior: he argued that joining the jihad was an entirely practical obligation, necessary to restore the caliphate and bring on the prophecy of the end times.

We have a moral and practical obligation to end the use of prolonged solitary confinement in the facilities of detention in our own backyards.

3) To my mind, the world's industrialized and fast-industrializing countries have an ethical and practical obligation to boost African capacity to track climate-related risks and foster practices (in agriculture, particularly) that can boost resilience to climate extremes, whatever mix of forces — human or otherwise — are behind them.

"There's a moral, legal and practical obligation of the United States to follow this allegation in good faith wherever it leads," said Juan E. Méndez, a veteran human rights lawyer who is president of the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York.

No matter what your opinion is of these wars (in the name of full disclosure, I strongly opposed the Iraq War and had grave reservations about Obama's surge in Afghanistan), no one can dispute the U.S. has a very real moral and practical obligation to the people who were truck drivers, interpreters, and guides for our servicemen and woman.

These "ownerless corporations" have no practical obligation to pay attention to the interests of their workforce at all.

But, he added, "Many countries echoed that pledge; few had Canada's practical obligation to respect it".

In a long-term trial, ethical and practical obligations require a mechanism for providing services to children and families that are not easily accounted for within the framework of protocol treatments [ 51, 52].