Sentence examples for cannot obligate from inspiring English sources

And of course, power alone cannot obligate one, inasmuch as obligation assumes that one cannot meaningfully do otherwise.

Although government cannot obligate a person to believe its dogmas, one who fails to adopt them can rightly be banished from the state on grounds of unsociability.

Assigning human culpability to the status of a duty to humans not involved is problematic, so it cannot obligate us to clone mammoths.

While the US government prohibits its citizens from doing business with blacklisted entities and can freeze any assets held under its jurisdiction, it cannot obligate the Mexican authorities to take action.

We are bound by nature to act on our strongest interest and cannot be obligated by previous agreements to break this inviolable psychological law of nature.

Some have objected that hypothetical agreements cannot bind or obligate people; only actual contracts or agreements can impose obligations and commitments (Dworkin, 1977, 150ff).

Companies, the court ruled, cannot be legally obligated to criticize their own products -- even if the required disclosures are factually accurate. .

Even if it would appear that promoting BPT is indeed the best choice in tackling the resistance problem, pharmaceutical enterprises cannot be morally obligated to sacrifice their own commercial interests in order to give priority to the development of BPT.

In addition, this methodology cannot be applied for obligate swimming fish because of fatal risk for lack of adequate gill ventilation.

And here I claim that it is not actively "maintained", but rather no substantial adaptive evolution occurs without it, and so obligate asexuality cannot gradually and adaptively evolve.

CR in P. anserina, as an obligate aerobe, cannot initiate a fermentation-to-respiration metabolic switch, so the dramatic life span extension conveyed by CR and severe CR must originate from elsewhere.