Sentence examples for about our obligation from inspiring English sources

"This is about our obligation as a society to look at itself and say, 'Do we want to do this better?"' Ms. Pirro said.

The words seemed to confirm what John Vevoda had been trying to say all along about our obligation to one another, and he almost smiled.

He seems determined not to let us forget the bigger lessons about our obligation to nurture and protect kids; not just protect them from crazed men with assault rifles, but also protect them from the corrosive consequences of poverty, and make sure they have the resources to grow up healthy and ready to learn; ready to take their places as productive citizens.

This takes many forms: thoughts about privacy, thoughts about our obligations to each other.

Here are letters of deep reflection from Barry Lopez, about our obligations as artists and our parallel paths working in different artistic disciplines.

Graeber's claim is that the past 400 years of Western history represent a grievous departure from how human societies have traditionally thought about our obligations to one another.

IGNATIEFF: This is a discussion about what has happened to us — all of us — since 9/11, and I am putting the issue of oversight into the frame, because we have all learned a great deal about our obligations to keep ourselves honest, to refuse to condone mendacity, as you put it.

And let's also have a serious discussion about our obligations, as a nation, to those of our fellow citizens who have the bad luck of finding themselves living and working in the wrong place at the wrong time — because, as I said, decline happens, and some regional economies will end up shrinking, perhaps drastically, no matter what we do.

The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor.

The man I met more than 20 years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another, to care for the sick and lift up the poor.

Of course, there are difficulties with appeal to an evolutionary account of the source of our beliefs about our obligations.