Republicans argued that Mr. Obama never made serious efforts at compromise and instead lectured them about what they ought to want rather than listening to what they did want.
Instead, they have claimed that social inquiry ought to combine rather than separate the poles of philosophy and the social sciences: explanation and understanding, structure and agency, regularity and normativity.
AT&T said that Congress ought to act, rather than the courts.
Secondly, he says too much economics is about how humans ought to behave rather than how they actually behave.
He regularly demands that his subordinates operate in accordance with what he thinks the law ought to be, rather than what it is.
I sometimes think we're led by what supermarkets think we ought to drink, rather than by what we actually fancy.
All kinds of groups, including socialists and feminists, would ask me to reconfigure work in order to show what ought to happen rather than what does.
In this way religion, for Kant, was a matter of practical reason, concerned with what people ought to do, rather than of theoretical reason, concerned with what people have good reason to think is true (see below Religion and morality).
I also wonder if people might pick the plays they think they ought to pick, rather than the plays they really love, in the same way that some people claim to love novels they've never actually read.
"There are some prelates in this country who don't act very Catholic, because they're more interested in trying to change the church to what they think it ought to be rather than what Christ intended it to be.
