They are not lesser obligations.
Surpassing the debt ceiling wouldn't mean default, said Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, because the government could simply pay its more important bills, like Social Security, while evading its lesser obligations, like payroll.
Further argument is needed to explain why being genetically related to a greater rather than lesser degree generates obligations, especially where the elements of voluntary cause are clearly not applicable (which applies as much to aunts, cousins or other members of the wider family as it does to grandparents).
Yes, you do have an obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils.
You are under no moral obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils.
First, we find that state enterprises represent a higher credit risk both because of their inferior economic performance and because of their lesser willingness or propensity to meet their payment obligations.
And, (2) I have recently completed an invited paper, now in press at the journal Annual Review in Public Health, entitled "Can We Say What Diet is Best for Health?" That was a lesser effort than the book, but with similar obligations.
Or does she have an obligation to vote for the candidate she perceives as "the lesser of two evils," the one of the two major-party nominees who is more likely to enact policies she believes healthy for society?
In this paper I argue that because of the important obligation to protect human research subjects' identities (and, to a lesser extent, the proliferation of publicly available datasets), few researchers are actually in a position to implement this type of mixed methodology.
His feast is given a lesser status in the calendar of the Church of England; a holy day of obligation for English Roman Catholics until the late 18th century, it is now an optional memorial for local observance.
