Sentence examples similar to obligation devolves upon from inspiring English sources

This responsibility devolves upon each individual; it is not a communal project and, indeed, Ibn Ezra evinces no interest in the "ideal city".

No provision of this Treaty shall in any way affect, or is intended to affect, any of the rights or obligations devolving upon the Contracting States from the United Nations Charter or the responsibilities borne by the United Nations Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security.

"A writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us … Despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all.

Primary responsibility for the enforcement of law devolves upon the courts and the administrative authorities.

(1) With the declaration of a state of defense the entire power of execution devolves upon the Fuehrer and Reichschancellor.

This appears as the special temptational sphere of the devil; in sexual activity, the role of the instrument of diabolic enticement devolves upon woman.

If the right to decide about an issue devolves upon the 'doers' and the active elements of the public, then this automatically entails a disenfranchising of the less active part of the public and of those who are indirectly affected.

Now the record of the oldest living person devolves upon Misao Okawa, age 118 in Japan.

And this duty is devolved upon the legislative department.

"In our dwellings … devolve upon us obligations and duties as solemn and responsible as those we owe to our children".

The parties share the understanding that nothing in this memorandum is intended to or shall in any way prejudge the rights and obligations which devolve or may devolve upon either government under the charter of the United Nations or under international law.