Sentence examples for radical obligation from inspiring English sources

Setting quotas at maximum sustainable yields by 2015 was "unrealistic," he said, and the discard ban was a "radical obligation" that legislators had adopted without understanding that in many cases it would be impossible to implement.

Alan Wolfe's rescue of liberalism from the jaws of latter-day know-nothings and Jedediah Purdy's reconciliation of radical individualism with community obligation have a common theme: freedom is self-realization.

As a Professor of Political Economy, his first major scholarly contribution was on his The Wages Question which set out to debunk the wage-fund doctrine as well as address the then-radical notion of obligations between the employer and the employed.

In recent decades the way to understand some aspects of its foundational concepts and logic has been strenuously disputed, not least among those philosophers who see it as offering a broadly sound answer to radical scepticism about value and obligation, an answer truer and more human than Kant's or Bentham's or their (in the broadest sense) successors'.

As a consequence, left institutionalists generally argue for more robust distributive obligations and more radical institutional changes than right institutionalists even though the extent and nature of those obligations varies from thinker to thinker.

Art has obligations to society even if that obligation is to be radical, rebellious and fighting against social norms.

Delta Air Lines has already told its pilots' union that it wants to reduce its pension obligations in a less radical way than United is contemplating.

This would reflect a radical reinterpretation of their international legal obligations – chipping away at long established constraints on the use of lethal force and creating a dangerous global precedent.

The Koran gave women property rights and freed orphans from the obligation to marry their guardians: radical changes at a time when women were traded like camels.

The report poses what should no longer be considered radical questions: Don't we have an obligation to do all that we can to prevent this disease -- to stop women (and increasingly men) from ever getting the disease?

Only very radical fundamentalist Muslims claim it is a religious obligation mandated by the Koran, by the way".