Sentence examples for obliged to command from inspiring English sources

It returned peacetime control to Seoul in 1994, but is still obliged to command South Korea's 640,000-member military in the event of war.

We therefore feel obliged to comment.

Adebolajo told jurors that he was a "soldier of Allah" and was obliged to obey the command of Allah.

Regarding self-affecting behavior as governed by morality is supported by the idea that we are created by God and are obliged to obey his commands, and so may be a holdover from the time when morality was not clearly distinguished from religion.

Cohen and other settlers say that they are obliged to fulfill God's command that Jews settle the land of Israel.

To keep track of the secret bombing, the military was obliged to set up an improvised command system, outside ordinary channels, that extended from the Commander-in-Chief down to the pilots and bombardiers.

Mr. Paterson did not feel obliged to name a second in command after he took over from the disgraced Eliot Spitzer because the Senate had a leader, the veteran if problematic Joseph Bruno.

In a system of divine command ethics, human beings are obliged to do what God asks them to do because God commands it, not because there is some underlying system of absolute goodness that ethical precepts should ideally mirror.

So long as we are rational, "we are obliged to carry out absolutely all commands of the sovereign power, however absurd they may be" (16, 200).

For instance, his claim that "we are obliged to carry absolutely all the commands of the sovereign power, however absurd they may be" (16, 200) is contingent on our behaving rationally and wanting to avoid being regarded as enemies of the state.

Admiral Fletcher, obliged to abandon the derelict Yorktown and feeling he could not adequately command from a cruiser, ceded operational command to Spruance.