Sentence examples for formal obligations from inspiring English sources

Consecrated virgins have no formal obligations besides daily prayer, but they typically engage in service to the church.

With Germanic variations on late Roman forms, communities were restructured into functional estates, each of which owned formal obligations, immunities, and jurisdictions.

"Thanks to the vastly subsidized terms these programs offered, most institutions were eventually able to repay the formal obligations they incurred".

In a song you have formal obligations – like if you're writing a sonnet, no, you can't write a line as long as you like.

"I had reasons not to become the World Champion," he wrote, "as in those times such a title meant that you were entering an official world of chess bureaucracy with many formal obligations.

[A10.] De Beers Buyout Is Approved Almost unanimously, shareholders approved a sweetened bid to turn De Beers into a private company with fewer formal obligations to report on its business.

Equity is much less effective, because it carries no formal obligation to pay shareholders back.

But the city does not appear to have a formal obligation to provide services, like road and sewer maintenance, for the infrastructure that gated communities agreed to maintain.

The members have no legal or formal obligation to one another; they are held together by shared traditions, institutions, and experiences as well as by economic self-interest.

"That's why we have perjury laws -- because we tell people this time you're under a special formal obligation to tell the truth," he said.

Given the commercial pressures that drive most news operations, the publicly financed BBC, with its vast resources, 27,000 employees, reporters in 44 countries around the world and formal obligation to fairness is the best option around, they say.