Sentence examples for obliged to refrain from inspiring English sources
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?
The former Smiths singer said that the Staples Centre is contractually obliged to refrain from selling meat, and even to close the building's McDonald's outlets for the evening.
He is not opposed to all military intervention per se, but he feels that the U.S. should feel obliged to refrain from militarism until it has restored its moral reputation.
It is obliged to refrain from passing any measures that could undermine its fiscal targets; that appears to torpedo vast swathes of its election manifesto, which included all manner of spending pledges.Hardline members of Mr Tsipras's Syriza party will find all of this hard to swallow, as will Greeks who thought they had voted for rupture.
Students are obliged to refrain from acts which they know, or under circumstances have reason to know, violate the academic integrity of the University.
They should be understood to be claiming that certain individuals or groups or society as a whole are obliged to perform various actions, such as designing certain institutions and distributing important goods in certain ways, that promote or maintain or restore their health and are obliged to refrain from actions that interfere with it.
To make my surrender to conformity more official, I had been obliged to sign a contract promising that I would refrain from masturbation, porn, "seductive behaviour" and "sexual contact with another person".
Molecular technologies thus operate in a political and ethical field in which individuals are obliged to formulate life strategies, maximise their life chances, take actions (or refrain from them) in order to increase their quality of life and to act prudently in relation to themselves and others (Novas and Rose, 2000, p. 487).
As with all employees on the line, staff at the station were contractually obliged to "devote themselves exclusively to the service, attend regularly during the appointed hours and to refrain from using improper language, cursing or swearing".
Even among dedicated secularists, a common post-election refrain is that the next few months will prove a welcome test, with Nahda obliged to take responsibility and thus blame for policies rather than criticise from the sidelines.
