In Cheng's translation, instead of expressing obligation, Huineng grants permission to the student by saying 'you can…'.
'Must' sounds authoritarian, and people are choosing to express obligation – or having a duty to do something – in different ways.
Even if a patient's death was unavoidable, medics expressed feeling obligation and responsibility to the patients and their families.
In Scotland, 16-year-olds will vote on independence next year, while in this survey, only 55% of young people expressed an obligation to vote.
(I10F02, TERM-training) In our study, GPs expressed an obligation to take action if they applied the new symptom diagnosis.
Some participants classified themselves at high risk of influenza and therefore believed it was extremely important to be vaccinated, whereas others expressed an obligation to be vaccinated because of work commitments.
Responsibility for funding PrEP fell to local authorities since they were under an express obligation to make arrangements for services to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
Thereupon, Great Britain, which had no concern with Serbia and no express obligation to fight either for Russia or for France but was expressly committed to defend Belgium, on August 4 declared war against Germany.
The proposed new wording (likely to be in force from September 2016), is somewhat more restrictive than that currently in force, as it contemplates an express obligation for the board to amend the relevant officers' compensation for the previous year or the company's management compensation policy for the future.
In hospitals where medical records are digitally stored, these rules may be expressed as obligations with deadlines.
