Sentence examples for historical obligation from inspiring English sources

Perhaps his publisher felt a historical obligation to include Barry's pieces written about 9/11, but these columns seem jarring, and dated.

The elected officials, like the many academics who have testified in favor of the proposal, seem to be animated most of all by a sense of historical obligation.

Lemkin calls Sambath a "marked man" but says he has no choice but to finish what they both call a "historical obligation" to Cambodia.

The escalating row threatened to eclipse Monday's summit after Greece's finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, issued a tart response to the suggestion, saying his compatriots were themselves capable of fulfilling the "historical obligation" to take the country out of crisis.

Britain has a moral and historical obligation to arm the Kurds against the Islamic State jihadists now menacing Irbil, and failure to so would be certain to amplify the terror threat at home, the Kurdish security chief, Masrour Barzani, said on Tuesday.

Turkey's moderates carry the same sense of historical obligation to create a better future.

This largely consisted, the firm believes, of "uncollectible historical obligations owed by unrelated third parties" to Refco.

Regardless of historical obligations and humanitarian concerns, it's not a good precedent to allow an elected President to be toppled by armed gangs.

As with Spielberg's "Munich," there is an awkward, irresoluble tension between the movie's urge to thrill and the weighty pull of the historical obligations that it seeks to assume.

The vote was a surprisingly lopsided 7 to 2 to reject the arguments put forward by Hawaii and the Clinton administration that the voting limitation was not essentially about race but about Hawaii's unique history and the historical obligations that flow from it.

That tax increase is a slap in the face because they cannot unwind their historical obligations.