Sentence examples for obligation to refrain from inspiring English sources

Conservatives hold "the laissez-faire 'minimal-state' view that, although we have a moral obligation to refrain from hurting others, we have no obligation to help others.

In upholding a 2010 summary judgment against the prisoner, Albert Kuperman, convicted in 2002 of sexually molesting a minor, the First Circuit panel did not disagree that Mr. Kuperman had a religious obligation to refrain from shaving.

"A pregnant woman, if she chooses not to end the pregnancy, takes on a moral and perhaps a legal obligation to refrain from clearly harmful prenatal conduct," he said.

At the same retreat, she said the dancers attended a seminar on how to adhere to their contractual obligation to refrain from "posting anything on the internet that could be perceived in a negative light".

Dr. Gutmann -- who confesses to being a "foody" -- doesn't feel any obligation to refrain from eating meat, either in front of Peter Singer or on her own, any more than she would be expected to agree with every one of his arguments.

Do multinational corporations have an obligation to refrain from corruption?

Ethics refers to those standards that impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander, and fraud.

The agreeing sides affirm the obligations to refrain from the first use of nuclear weapons against each other and from aiming strategic nuclear missiles at each other.

All of these parties have moral obligations to refrain from spending resources on nonessential items and to use the available resources or savings to lend assistance to those in urgent need.

This understanding of justification, commonly labeled deontological, may be defined as follows: S is justified in doing x if and only if S is not obliged to refrain from doing x.[10] What kind of obligations are relevant when we wish to assess whether a belief, rather than an action, is justified or unjustified?

"Member states of the EU have three obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights - the first is the duty to refrain from unlawful deprivation of life, the second is the duty to investigate suspicious deaths thoroughly and the third is the positive obligation to prevent avoidable loss of life," she said.