As the French philosopher Jean-François Revel has remarked: "Utopia is not under the slightest obligation to produce results: its sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists in the name of what does not".
In contrast to the suburbs, a dense neighbourhood has lots of convenient places to stop and chat, so you can be on friendly terms with dozens of people who live or work near your home without ever feeling the slightest obligation to invite any of them inside for tea.
." Mrs. Roosevelt, she said, had suggested that she hold a press conference on the following Tuesday and had offered "to sit with me and sort of introduce the girls to me and get me familiar with the procedure". "Do you think," she added plaintively, "I ought to see the press?" Perkins replied, "No, Mrs. Truman, I don't think you ought to feel the slightest obligation to do it..
In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.
By giving priority to stock values and profit margins, they slighted their obligations to the public.
Then I delivered the same joke/tribute much better on Facebook, out of a slight feeling of obligation.
I'm quite lucky to have parents who are happy to do it – who see it as an obligation – but there's this slight annoyance that I'm still having to live at home.
But the use of the word "obligation" to us Anglo-Saxon lawyers does create some slight difficulty.
It has been a slight relief both to them and to America, which, having a treaty obligation to defend Japan, is nervous about its spat with China.
There would seem to be a natural inference to the contrary; and the inference is made determinate by the stipulated fact that no one was under any obligation, legal or otherwise (and this would include a moral obligation, however slight), 'to pay any additional compensation.' There is no ground for saying that the benefit received and the compensation then paid for it were not equivalents.
This is in line with a Swedish study that examined whether family obligations influence the risk of SA in publicly employed women and found a slight risk increase for SA among women without children.
