Sentence examples for sort of obligation from inspiring English sources

He also abolished enslavement for debt, pulling up the boundary markers, or horoi, which indicated some sort of obligation.

When the President enters into an executive agreement, what sort of obligation does it impose on the United States?

I suppose there's a sort of obligation, people live up to their cliches in all parts of society".

The 56 members of the Islamic Conference managed only an "invitation" to Islamic countries to sever ties with Israel, rather than any sort of obligation to do so.

Does it imply some sort of obligation on my part that I should find a new date to invite them again?

"If you witness a crime, do you have any sort of obligation that transcends your promise of anonymity?" Ms. McBride said.

What sort of obligations do we have to help those people, and what are the best ways to go about doing so?

The price tag is unknown, but it appears that the city will offer the team nothing more than a 66-year lease on the land and rent credits to recoup the costs of shoring up the crumbling pier and making infrastructure improvements — the sort of obligations that are usually picked up by the public.

In such a world the parish or mosque or synagogue shares with the extended family the task of socialising children, in whose young minds the two sorts of obligation (to family and faith) become interchangeable.In such communities invisible bonds link past and future generations.

If there's not a sense of continuity, a sense of some sort of communal obligation and responsibility, a sense of a future involved in what you're doing, and a sense of being beholden to the past, you end up being one shallow, greedy motherfucker, just trying to get all you can get".

All sorts of obligations arise when you have a relationship like that with the military.