"I have family and life obligations," he said.
This is one effect of Clinton's long public life: obligations, opportunities, challenges, and tedious rituals of politeness are all mixed up.
And this person would probably be young and free of major life obligations.
Tomorrow is another day, and you'll be able to face work and life obligations more effectively if you've been your own "boss" for a stretch.
But, if you're like us and have real life obligations that prevent you from picking up and traveling the world in search of foods, you might have to settle for foods named after various geographical locations.
Unfortunately, many people do not see their health as an equal priority to their other life obligations, which I think is a fundamental problem in our fight on obesity, prevention of chronic disease, and a universal outlook that needs to be changed.
Don't let games get in the way of your real life obligations.
At some point, most people want to find a sustainable level of activity that meets their fitness needs and can be easily balanced with their other work and life obligations.
Reflecting in his library, he says he is trying, without much success, to slow down his whirlwind life -- the half-dozen trips a year to Paris, the dawn meetings, the night-life obligations in New York.
But if the conference were interpreted through a chronological, not geopolitical, lens, those difficulties could perhaps come more into focus — as a contest between the rival ideas of life and obligation that societies possess at different moments in their modernizing odysseys.
