I fully understand that a primary obligation of any business is to earn a profit, and that without one, nothing else is possible.
"These are clear signals that the penal system, as it is currently organized, is not meeting its primary obligation of guarding inmates efficiently and safely while they serve their sentences," the federal government's recently released strategic plan on prisons said of the string of assaults and escapes.
Failing to do so is to fail to fulfill this "primary obligation" of autonomy.
To you, the student, the primary obligation of the person wearing this hat is directing your research for the next two to 6 years.
Others argued that profit-making organizations have no legitimate interest in philanthropy and to do so distracts from their primary obligation of making a profit (Seeger and Hipfel 2007).
According to Robert Paul Wolff, the principal advocate of this view, there can be no general obligation to obey the law because any such obligation would violate the "primary obligation" of autonomy, which is "the refusal to be ruled" (1998 [1970], p. 18).
The primary obligation of that hosting is to provide a spectacular experience for the Convention delegates.
Michael Blowen began his review of the film by stating that "[it] satisfies the primary obligation of a bedtime story before it's half over the children will be fast asleep".
As it happens, the enjoyment of fundamental human rights -- and more particularly the economic, social and cultural rights of the Greek people -- has been undermined as a result by violating existing obligations protected primarily by the Constitution of Greece, Article 2(1) postulating that "respect and protection of the value of the human being constitutes the primary obligation of the state".
We argue that the international obligation for states in a position to cooperate and provide assistance is a complementary or supplementary obligation that does not limit or qualify the primary obligation of the state to spend the maximum of available resources towards achieving the right to health, and all other rights, not just the minimum core [ 19, 22].
