Sentence examples for practical obligation from inspiring English sources

3) To my mind, the world's industrialized and fast-industrializing countries have an ethical and practical obligation to boost African capacity to track climate-related risks and foster practices (in agriculture, particularly) that can boost resilience to climate extremes, whatever mix of forces — human or otherwise — are behind them.

This is a highly practical obligation in which all persons of good will can share.

But, he added, "Many countries echoed that pledge; few had Canada's practical obligation to respect it".

These "ownerless corporations" have no practical obligation to pay attention to the interests of their workforce at all.

Mr. Gore, who has begun some transition planning, has a practical obligation if he wins to calm G.O.P. anger by building coalitions.

Another thought of himself as a cultural warrior, not a holy warrior: he argued that joining the jihad was an entirely practical obligation, necessary to restore the caliphate and bring on the prophecy of the end times.

Until now most philosophers who have examined this phenomenon have focused on practical obligations: the ways in which we are obligated to treat our friends and relatives better than we treat people whom we do not know and to whom we are not significantly related.

Yet given the huge tax cuts that have gone to the wealthiest Americans, the moral and practical obligations facing them are greater than ever.

But if you gradually realize that you need an automotive Leatherman tool, the Outlander is the crossover that carries out its practical obligations with a small, gratifying dose of car-geek credibility.

Disagreements regarding the extent and nature of such practical obligations have dominated the partialist-impartialist debate.

What is now required is the understanding that a commitment is a pledge with both moral and practical obligations.