Acknowledging that fees and fines can be a ball and chain that hold people back, the Council of State Governments, a nonprofit good governance group, has urged states to strike an "especially careful balance between achieving reparative justice (for the victim or community), meeting the needs of the released person's family and creating a manageable, if difficult, obligation for the individual".
Semantic challenges to divine command theory have been proposed; the philosopher William Wainwright argued that to be commanded by God and to be morally obligatory do not have an identical meaning, which he believed would make defining obligation difficult.
The question is particularly difficult because promissory obligations differ from other sorts of moral obligations in a number of ways.
It will see Blume "dig deep" into her characters, added Knopf, depicting them "coping not only with grief but with first love, estranged parents, difficult friendships, familial obligations, divorce, career ambitions, a grandparent's love, a widower's hope, and everything in between".
Women, with our lives that encompass so many different and difficult roles and obligations, often learn to adapt to changing circumstances supremely well and we reinvent ourselves many times over in the course of a lifetime to a greater or lesser degree.
But by 2008 soaring interest rates made repayment obligations difficult for 70% of borrowers.
As members of this generation in the American family, we need to do some housecleaning and take on difficult responsibilities and obligations.
Mr. Straw said Britain faced a difficult choice between its obligation to provide asylum to those with a well-founded fear of persecution at home, and its duty to "prevent and deter the very serious international terrorist crime of hijacking".
Although such cases get widespread agreement, it becomes more difficult to ascertain what obligation one has to distant others with unclear expectations of success.
Social pacts are necessarily contingent institutions that, even where accompanied by supportive networks, and systems of mutual commitment and obligation, are difficult to negotiate and stabilize (see Avdagic et al. 2011).
The fact that this is a man who is supposed to be running for Prime Minister means that asking him difficult questions is an obligation.
