Sentence examples for obligations tend from inspiring English sources

Patients with higher out-of-pocket obligations tend to be worse at taking their prescriptions and can end up with worse health as a result.

The conditions of the free peasantry worsened over time, their growing obligations tending increasingly toward serfdom.

Yet the two approaches are sometimes conflated in the policy sphere (the EU's Renewable Energy Directive and the UK's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation tend not to distinguish between the two), which can lead to the misuse of the data in policy analysis.

As feudatories of the empire, they came to represent the same interests toward it as did the lay princes; at least, their sense of a special obligation tended to weaken.

In a few cases, the obligation tended towards a compulsion and led to sexual sacrifice as a secondary strategy because those wives feared a repeat of their husband's inappropriate behavior.

Sixty-two percent of workers say they have plenty of chores and personal obligations to tend to in their off hours, making their leisure time less relaxing and enjoyable.

I have professional obligations to tend to.

The law, called "Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People," has nine clauses that lay out the duties of children and their obligation to tend to the "spiritual needs of the elderly".

But if the student made little difference whatsoever in that cause, then his obligation to tend to his mother's needs would take precedence, since there he is virtually certain to be helpful.

"At a minimum, they had an ongoing obligation to tend to the security of the network," said a source familiar with the board's deliberations, adding that the agency had to be sure there was evidence of wrongdoing before it accused the Senate of pilfering the document.

Likewise, men tend to choose work obligations over family obligations, and family consequences follow.