Sentence examples for minimal obligations from inspiring English sources

Finally, it was the next afternoon, and J did an unusually bad job with her minimal obligations.

Given a Washington that will hand big media anything they want in the name of deregulation, there can be no illusion: these corporations now have minimal obligations to the public interest and could dump news entirely.

"Political/governmental Washington," she argued, "is psychologically fenced off from the larger community within which it makes its home, free -- like irresponsible youth -- of all but the minimal obligations of citizenship to that community, and absorbed to the exclusion of all else in its own eccentric aims and competitions".

(c) Section 1409(a)(4) imposes a minimal obligation.

But two recent rulings in the case highlighted a more fundamental question: what is the minimal obligation of government to educate its children?

I am convinced that the provision of a good quality of life, including careful monitoring of health and behavior and appropriate medical care when needed, should be regarded as our minimal obligation to chimpanzees.

In June 2004, Judge Cyril K. Bedford of New York City Civil Court found the infestation so harmful to Mr. Young's "health, safety and welfare" that it violated the implied warranty of habitability — a landlord's minimal obligation to provide the essential functions of a residence.

The Cameron government has miserable form in kow-towing to vested interest in this field, dating back to the time when major health charities walked away from Andrew Lansley's "responsibility" partnerships, because of his refusal to overrule the industry on anything much, or even to impose any serious rules on the minimal obligation to inform customers clearly about the nutrition in their food.

What we call "citizenship" today an essentially passive legal status involving only minimal civic obligations and relying on a distant and entrenched governing elite is but a shadow of the Athenian politeia.

Meanwhile, conservatives around the country are fighting to make it easier for the wealthier partner or spouse to walk away with minimal financial obligations when marriage does end in divorce – which has the potential to disproportionately affect women.

And while they have the advantage of a tenure-track job, you have the advantage of minimal teaching obligations.