They are torn between their pride of appearing as good state reformers, the need for rationalization, devotion to the obligation of budget rigor, and their feeling of being used as an eternal victim" by the Ministry of Finance.
When it comes to the city they visit out of religious obligation and devotion to God, most are transient figures, who will leave no indelible mark on the city.
But he said he ultimately accepted the job because of his devotion to his state and the sense of obligation he developed as a marine.
Yet, unlike DeVos, Mann did not see this obligation as conflicting with a devotion to public schools.
Stephen's devotion to nudity is best framed as a religious obligation.
But they harbor a pronounced sense of America's moral obligations, reflected most powerfully in a devotion to beleaguered democracies like Israel and Taiwan (and for some of them during previous administrations, Bosnia).
But even this attitude of devotion to the interest of the other is not that of obligation, though it is likely to be so considered in an ethical doctrine which makes morality synonymous with self-sacrifice.
Hence the dogged devotion to democracy that the Germans have shown since the war and the obligation that every one of them feels to make a contribution to economic, as well as political, recovery.
In his Constitution Day speech in 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt professed devotion to the document, but as a statement of aspirations rather than obligations.
His life was balanced constantly between the necessities of memory & of deliberate forgetfulness--on one side, his devotion to his father & what he stood for, & on the other, his obligation to forgive.
3. Devotion to professionalism.
