Sentence examples for indirect duties from inspiring English sources

Our taxation system, with its shift from direct to indirect duties, has become increasingly regressive, penalising the poor and favouring the rich.

Measures ranging from the overhaul of the pension system to indirect duties – slapped on beer, fuel and almost everything in between – and a controversial increase in VAT are similarly cited by Greeks now reneging on loan repayments, property taxes and energy bills.

Kantian ethics may also imply indirect duties toward animals such as ameliorating humanity's impact on the environment.

The "pathological" feelings that we have indirect duties to cultivate are of genuine, but conditional, moral value.

Kant also believed that, because animals do not possess rationality, we cannot have duties to them except indirect duties not to develop immoral dispositions through cruelty towards them.

This means that, with the exception of those who hold that we have only indirect duties to animals, all the traditions that Cochrane discusses can lay claim to offering a theory of justice for animals.

Indeed, Kant even acknowledges the epistemic, communicative, and subordinate motivational roles that sympathy can play, and that justify an indirect duty to cultivate it.

Speaking of sympathy, which is perhaps the best example of this sort of feeling, Kant says, "it is … an indirect duty to cultivate the natural … feelings in us, and to make use of them as so many means to sympathy based on moral principles and the feeling appropriate to them" (MM 6 457).

FAO shall be exempt from all indirect taxes and duties on its operations and transactions, unless such taxes or duties form part of the price to be paid, and cannot be identified separately from such price.

SECTION 16 FAO shall be exempt from all indirect taxes and duties on its operations and transactions, unless such taxes or duties form part of the price to be paid, and cannot be identified separately from such price.

In the context of intergenerational ethics, such theories rely on indirect reciprocity, where duties to the future are owed in response to what one has received from the past, or on a chain of obligation, where the present generation has direct duties only toward those descendants that overlap with itself.