"By definition, we cannot have that same level of assurance when they are held by foreign governments, whose obligations and practices may differ from our own.
In addition, a number of previous studies focused on describing elder care patterns in China without considering the complexity and variety of family obligations and practices in modern China (Zhan and Montgomery 2003; Zhang 2004).
A conception of law must therefore articulate the relation that must hold between some right or obligation and institutional practice if the right or obligation is to be permissibly enforced.
"The FCO calls on the Iranian authorities to commute this inhumane punishment to an appropriate sentence in line with Iran's international obligations and to cease the practice of corporal punishment for crimes".
However, these women said that most midwives and nurses, especially non-Muslim ones, often seemed uninformed about the religious obligations, practices and maternity needs of Muslim women.
However, a number of studies have shown that filial piety still plays a significant role in Chinese society, even through the attitudes to and practice of filial obligation have undergone change (Lee and Xiao 1998; Sun 2002; Qi 2015).
The fundamental assumption that ties enforcing rights and obligations to institutional practice serves to fix the subject matter of inquiry by setting the interpretative problem.
We must have integrity in our business practices, compliance obligations and internal processes," Sacks wrote.
The interviewees' experiences in this study revealed that the traditional Confucian ideology and concept of xiao were considered important when thinking about how to practice their filial obligations, and be seen to be practising them.
We need to clearly define our duties and obligations and understand what they mean in practice.
And practice, practice, practice.
