Sentence examples for competing obligations from inspiring English sources
Graham Mytton Head of audience research, BBC World Service 1982-98 Youreportraisesses the familiar issue of the competing obligations to domestic and foreign constituencies.
In his early 30s Hooke was brilliant, gregarious, adept at negotiating a flood of competing obligations, the toast of the City coffee houses.
But professors decline to write letters of recommendation for a range of reasons, Cheney-Lippold said, including competing obligations and knowledge of the student.
Judge T.S. Ellis III already had rejected more than three dozen people because they had competing obligations or indicated they could not be impartial.
So while Achilles has the glamor of extremity, it is Hector, more than any other character, who feels real to us, bound by competing obligations, anchored to his world and its claims.
Religious people are subject to two sets of sometimes competing obligations; a secular government that is decently modest about its own pretensions will try to accommodate those allegiances if it can.
If one must decide whether to attend a wedding or respect a competing obligation instead, it would not be illuminating to describe this as a search for a mean between extremes unless "aiming at the mean" simply becomes another phrase for trying to make the right decision.
The potential dilemma for the grandparent-parent is not, however, between their obligations to their child and their grandchild, but their competing obligation to their two children, the latter of whom is also a grandchild.
Despite contractual obligations to pensioners, states could be allowed to take into account their competing duty to educate children and build safe roads.
Professional obligations can then be weighed against competing personal obligations to health and families.
I realize that right now it may be difficult to think about saving for retirement, let alone saving 6 or more percent of your salary, when you have so many competing financial obligations.
