Sentence examples for forces obligations from inspiring English sources

The strategic defence review of 1998 remains the blueprint for defence organisation, but since then the armed forces' obligations have multiplied.

The long-standing rage from which he stays disconnected distorts his perception: simple social responsibilities, such as breaking bread with members of Congress, become forced obligations that he must automatically resist.

Often, governments can force such obligations on companies, through taxes and regulation.

But the tension between a police force's obligation to protect life and property, he said, and a society's need to express itself freely is an inherent aspect of law enforcement.

As with should in English, the modal force of obligation is weaker than with must.

Third, although China is rapidly modernizing its military forces, U.S. treaty obligations to Taiwan in the event of an invasion cannot be discounted.

Leonardo was soon on cozy terms with Louis XII's occupying force, earning unspecified "obligations to His Majesty the King of France".

In modern moral and legal thought, actual consent whether express or tacit is of great importance in determining the force of moral obligations and the validity of contracts.

Jack Nicholson plays a crass and rancorous billionaire, and Morgan Freeman an intellectual who was forced by family obligations to become an auto mechanic.

* The UN Security Council will try to adopt a resolution that gives legal force to the obligations on Syria as early as this weekend.

Rather, their high debt-repayment obligation forces them to share "too much" of the benefits from working with the banks they borrowed from.