Sentence examples for fundamental obligations from inspiring English sources

State legal systems must incorporate these fundamental obligations and they must be complied with.

Births, deaths, marriages -- the fashions of these passages change, but the fundamental obligations of witness and remembrance remain.

A government that cannot make that assurance is failing in one of its fundamental obligations: to protect its own citizens from the grasp of foreign powers.

Invoking the responsibility of governments to protect the civilians of other countries from war crimes, Ms. Pillay said, "I fear that we in the international community are failing to meet our fundamental obligations to the victims".

"Appalling violations of the most basic human rights are occurring in Syria, and I fear that we in the international community are failing to meet our fundamental obligations to the victims," Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said in an address opening a session of the Human Rights Council.

"Institutional independence brings with it fundamental obligations of transparency, responsiveness and accountability," Mr. Bernanke said, adding: "It is essential that the public have the information it needs to understand and be assured of the integrity of all our operations, including all aspects of our balance sheet and our financial controls".

"We have a fundamental obligation to graduate these players," he said.

"We have no more fundamental obligation than protecting those who cannot protect themselves," Mr. McGreevey said in his speech.

As the 9/11 commission has told us in unmistakable terms, we must do much more to meet this fundamental obligation.

Our fundamental obligation is to make treatment available for those addicted to drugs, especially our young people.

Nobody should be encouraged to think that he can trifle with a fundamental obligation and escape permanent sanction.