Sentence examples for obligatory act from inspiring English sources
As long as they are fit and financially able, the pilgrimage is an obligatory act of worship that followers of Islam owe to God once in their lifetime.
But the obligatory Act III moral doesn't negate what "Lift" has to offer: a glimpse of a world rarely seen in movies, and idiosyncratic character development.
An obligatory act or omission is something the law renders non-optional.
It seems not, since it cannot be both an obligatory act of promise keeping and a supererogatory act at the same time (Kawall, 2005).
But then the right or obligatory act would seem to be the one that promotes utility the most or maximizes utility.
Seneca (On Benefits) claims that gratitude may be owed for an obligatory act if the benefactor had gratitude-worthy motives beyond the motive to fulfill her obligation, and these gratitude-worthy motives were decisive in motivating her.
This requires everyone to profess belief in the basic principles of religion as enunciated in the Qurʾān, the Hadith, and the ijmāʿ (consensus) of the learned and to perform all obligatory acts of worship.
Although she has a steady boyfriend, the City Ballet corps dancer Stuart Capps, and is appreciated by one of the world's major performing-arts institutions, she will look positively stricken if asked about her failure to whip off all 32 of the obligatory third-act fouettes in Mr. Martins's "Swan Lake".
(Even his moments of self-criticism pale beside Dorothy's, who peculiarly blames herself for snaring him in the obligatory second-act crisis of their relationship; Jerry Maguire may seem to progressively serve a female audience under the cloak of a brawny sports movie, but its understanding of women is entirely masculine).
For instance, the state of affairs of a world with no war is a moral ideal and the individual Socrates is virtuous, whereas the practice of paying back debts is obligatory and acts of theft prohibited.
We placed 13 kittens for adoption, seven with the magnanimous help of the Crawford Animal Hospital, which has no obligatory responsibility to act in an adoptive capacity.
