Sentence examples for obligation first from inspiring English sources

"You simply put your public obligation first," he said.

"Spouses have one mandatory obligation — 'First Do No Harm' — and one optional assignment: provide a positive magnifying force," Mary Matalin, editor at large for Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, and a former member of Dick Cheney's staff, wrote in an e-mail.

What I believe is you have an obligation first to yourself for retirement, and that should be funded.

For this reason, many feminist ethicists believe they have an obligation first to listen to women's differing points of view and then to fashion a consensus view from them.

(Russell 2004) This interpretation of what Locke means by "labor" connects nicely with his claim that we have a natural law obligation first to preserve ourselves and then to help in the preservation and flourishing of others.

In my fiction classes, I teach my students that the writer's obligation, first and foremost, is to observe the world around them, even in sports -- especially in sports.

The 1957 Act qualified this, providing in Section 4 (repealed by the Defective Premises Act) that where a landlord was obligated by his tenant to repair property and he breached this obligation, third parties injured as a result of the breach would be able to claim providing that the tenant could.

If you're in a position to pay off debts early, it pays to attack your costliest obligations first.

Consider prioritizing higher interest obligations first, which will save you money in the long-term.

introduced what Democrats are calling the "Pay China First Act," which would require the federal government to pay all its debt obligations first and everything else -- vets, schools, you name it -- with what's left.

Two arguments were considered: First, that the expectation of the data subject could serve to relax the relevant informational obligations; second, that the technical and organisational privacy protection mechanisms provided by the biobank should serve to relax the relevant informational obligations.