Sentence examples for higher obligations from inspiring English sources

Some signs suggest that higher education is waking up to its higher obligations.

Owners of çiftliks were free to impose higher obligations on the peasantry or to drive them off the land.

To defend News Corp. now, after all this, is to deny our higher obligations to community and to truth.

As for Antonio, Dan Daily turns him into an easily recognizable commercial tycoon, a bit standoffish, bragging about his diversified investments in shipping, easily commanding his younger colleagues, silencing them with declarations that his status gives him higher obligations.

"There couldn't be any higher obligation on earth.

"We have a higher obligation to kids," said Chuck Hurley, a spokesman for the National Safety Council.

As president, I have no higher obligation than to safeguard the lives of American citizens," Bush said at the time.

"We have no higher obligation than to protect those we send to the front lines," Mr. Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

Nonetheless, an author who gives up altogether on psychological interiority and larger moral problems has dodged some higher obligation of the chronicler of disaster.

Although all soldiers have a duty to report war crimes, many physicians feel that doctors, nurses and medics have a higher obligation to do so, and they are bothered by the dual loyalties created by war: a doctor may feel torn between loyalty to comrades and the duty to treat and protect patients, even those from the enemy side.

And, third, the position gave me a higher obligation — a higher sense of purpose.