Sentence examples for conflicting obligations from inspiring English sources

The cause was a combination of Tippu Sultan's intransigence with conflicting obligations undertaken by the Madras government.

Mr. Hodge seems torn by conflicting obligations to be both a crowd-wowing song-and-dance man and an abstracted, ambivalent introvert, and he never quite delivers a finished character.

He has accumulated multiple and sometimes conflicting obligations while building a coalition in the ANC against Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as president and was ousted by Mr Zuma's allies last year.

For law enforcement agencies that had taken a more benign approach to immigration enforcement, it poses a quandary, forcing them to balance conflicting obligations of going after illegal immigrants while keeping them on their side.

Thus the same moral precept gives rise to conflicting obligations.

In order to maintain their well-being, employees need opportunities to resolve conflicting obligations.

Employers face conflicting legal obligations and huge uncertainties.

In such a situation, administrators might find that plan payments are subject to conflicting legal obligations.

In addition, businesses that operate on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing to make sure they are not caught between conflicting legal obligations.

Another time I pleaded about our conflicting ethical obligations and the interests of justice.

BI incorporates, but goes beyond suitability, in that it covers disclosure, care, and conflict obligations.