Sentence examples for institutional obligations from inspiring English sources

The main theoretical alternatives to the contractual view hold that marital obligations are defined by the purpose of the institution, and that spouses cannot alter these institutional obligations (much like the professional moral obligations of a doctor; to become a doctor, one must voluntarily accept the role and its obligations, but one cannot negotiate the content of these obligations).

"There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about," Obama said to Kearns Goodwin.

Strategically, he would be able to achieve more as an economic elite, unbounded by institutional obligations of the office that would otherwise hamper his efforts.

While those who actively corrupt institutional processes, roles, and purposes are not necessarily themselves the occupants of institutional roles, those who are culpably negligent tend to the occupants of institutional roles who have failed to discharge their institutional obligations.

Funds from the surety could be used to make refunds, provide teach-out facilities, and meet institutional obligations to ED".

Although the views of the panel members differed with regard to specific medical therapies, and individual or institutional obligations, there was unanimous concern that many of the currently proposed regulations and legislative initiatives would adversely affect both women's health and their reproductive and religious freedoms.

So there are two conditions on an action's being an institutional obligation in the Rawlsian sense: (1) The institution whose rule calls for the action is just, and (2) The person has 'voluntarily accepted the benefits' of the institution.

The Senate has a constitutional responsibility and an institutional obligation in this effort.

The child doesn't get a parent's knowing gift; he has a wish "granted," as though by institutional obligation, and whatever loneliness the gift is intended to minimize is instead cruelly deepened.

Asked about the shift, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner said that "regardless of his personal views," the speaker "has an institutional obligation to enforce the laws of the land".

Artifacts and social objects like institutional facts (claims, obligations, rights and duties, etc).