Sanjeev Roy, from the British Council, said the month-long trial "gives students and teachers the opportunity to trial Scholar on a no-obligation basis".
Federal and state income tax codes specify a minimum tax obligation on the basis of income.
The essential elements in the biblical covenant i.e., that of free, voluntary acceptance of ethical obligation on the basis of and as response to past experience has virtually always given way to covenant as fixed religious dogma that legitimizes the social structure.
This opposition is not a given; indeed, modern pharmacists have successfully staked claims to privileges – and associated civic obligations – on the basis of their dual vocation as businesspersons and health professionals (Faure 1996).
Here we find a very different account of the basis of obligation: we are obliged to perform or avoid certain actions which are incompatible with our consciences, because we will be guilty of inconsistency if we don't.
Contemporary natural duty theorists differ over the natural duty that provides the basis for political obligation.
There may have been a time in our past when religious convictions and a sense of civic obligation sufficed as a basis for philanthropy, as the examples of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie suggest.
Social obligation is a poor basis for a general condemnation of suicide because it can just as easily be used to justify, and even promote, suicide in certain circumstances.This problem is avoided by another class of arguments against suicide based on the axiom that there is an intrinsic value to all human life, and that suicide is therefore wrong.
This was the explanation offered by Lloyd C. Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, when he was testified before a Senate subcommittee in 2010 about the firm's sale of a synthetic derivative obligation that was the basis for an S.E.C. civil fraud suit.
Dworkin attempts to discern the basis of obligation in friendships and families by the process of interpretation of these social practices.
This calculation gives you your financial obligation on a weekly basis.
