Sentence examples for particular obligation from inspiring English sources

College professors do not have a particular obligation to shun them.

I don't think the N.F.L. has a particular obligation to explain its thinking to fans.

I feel a particular obligation not to let my own writing be twisted so as to inflame bigotry and xenophobia.

The medical profession may have a particular obligation to address this problem, because medicine's usual watchdogs -- patients -- often cannot.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has said he favors resuming the commuter tax temporarily, has a particular obligation to do so.

He said, too, that he felt no particular obligation to watch the playing of the anthem because, as he put it, "I know how it sounds".

In any given society, there are many different, particular obligations.

In fact, for Bergson, if we ignore the multiplicity of particular obligations in any given society, and if instead we look at what he calls "the whole of obligation" (The Two Sources, p. 25), then we see that obedience to obligation is almost natural.

The specific task of Fichte's ethics is therefore, first of all, to deduce the categorical imperative (in its distinctively moral sense) from the general obligation to determine oneself freely, and, second, to deduce from this the particular obligations that apply to every free and finite rational being.

As a Christian, who will soon celebrate the birth of Jesus, I have particular obligations to speak words of calm and resolute commitment to the humanity of all people, especially Muslims, in this time of hatred.

So, for instance, a parent has at least two reasons not to kill his own child: a reason in virtue of the child's FMS, and a reason in virtue of the parental relationship, which generates a special obligation for this particular agent not to kill this particular child.