Sentence examples for recognized obligations from inspiring English sources

As James Madison recognized, obligations arising out of religious commitment are "precedent, both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

JAMES CAMNER Princeton, N.J., Sept. 12, 2011 To the Editor: The Egyptian government appreciated that universally recognized obligations were insufficient to guarantee the security of the Israeli Embassy and last month built a wall in an effort to provide protection.

Violence must be abandoned, rights recognized, obligations of previous agreements fulfilled, settlements stopped, the humanitarian crisis and lack of opportunity ended and Jerusalem shared by all faiths.

Combined with the now widely recognized obligation to ensure research participants receive some benefits in return for their participation in research, relief of oppression offers a pragmatic strategy for explicitly addressing participants' needs that arise from injustice.

It's entirely possible that future generations will have higher ethical standards than we do, and that they will recognize obligations that we are ignoring now.

The final argument for recognizing obligations to benefit fellow-citizens appeals to what David Miller has called 'relational facts.' Here the general thought is that certain relationships are constituted by reciprocal obligations: one cannot be a friend or a brother without having certain friendship-obligations or sibling-obligations, respectively.

We advocate an approach that recognizes obligations of "rescue" or humanitarian assistance focused on improving fundamental freedoms for participants, which we have called relief of oppression.

Has the Administration lived up to — or recognized — those obligations?

"The industry needs to emphasize honesty and integrity as a part of its fundamental obligations, to say 'We recognize our obligations to shareholders, and those include an obligation to be honest and act with integrity in all of our ways.' And that, in individual cases, would result in very strong compliance programs and efforts to advertise them.

I recognized an Obligation.

The other side may not have recognized any obligation to move.