"We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn't meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen," Morales said.
Not out of any greater sense of obligation or commitment; I just wasn't as prone to restlessness.
Muslims, Todd has written, found themselves pressured to defend not merely "the right, but the obligation, to commit blasphemy," as proof of their commitment to French secularism.
Gays want to marry precisely because they see marriage as important: they want the symbolism that marriage brings, the extra sense of obligation and commitment, as well as the social recognition.
The EUNENBS members have provided informally their input and advice without implying any obligation or commitment of their national authorities or organizations.
She accepted, Hornstein suggests, the principle embedded in a Talmudic text, that to redeem one person -- to save a life -- is to redeem the world, because each life is like a whole world, and the spiritual obligation of a Jew is commitment to tikkun olam, the restoration and healing of a world ruptured from God.
These components are basically categories of service, which are determined by the level of training obligation and commitment that a member is required to meet.
While individuals may want to honor such obligations ex ante, a lack of commitment (the sine qua non of modern monetary theory) may prevent them from the following through on their promises ex post.
In the face of this crisis, all of us have an obligation to mobilise commitment and to help build the capacity to act.
In 1980, however, the current name Australian Army Reserve was officially adopted, and it now consists of a number of components based around the level of commitment and training obligation that its members are required to meet.
(President Obama's budget speech today wasn't as compact, emotionally, as the surly-bonds speech, or as philosophical as the one he gave after the Giffords shooting. But it was as moving a statement of commitment to communal obligations — to the old and sick and poor — as we've heard from him in a while).
