Sentence examples for supposed obligations from inspiring English sources

External facts here means facts external to, in the sense of independent of, the motivating states of those to whom the supposed obligations or reasons apply.

But if such psychological connections are supposed to underlie obligations to take special care of those to whom I bear such connections, then it follows that my strongest special obligations are to myself, and so I am morally obligated to give special weight to my own interests.

Although they are supposed to have fiduciary obligations, they often appear simply to warm their assigned seats, and to raise their hands when their leader calls for a vote.

"Other countries would want to leave the EU to get the supposed advantages without the obligations … There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price".

First, the voluntarist objection arises when we consider the perspective of the person supposed to have special obligations over and above natural duties.

For according to that version morality mandates the constitutive role that the theory assigns to institutional practice, while there is no nonmorally predefined route through which the practice is supposed to determine any obligations.

Or how about asking Hank and Jamie to lecture fellow bailed-out CEO John Mack about how "you're supposed to meet your obligations, not run from them"?

They nev er did look right on her... Diana, too, was supposed to understand her obligation to temper the glamour with quiet propriety.

But I suppose a contractual obligation's a contractual obligation.

Moral obligations, however, are supposed to be the sorts of things we can fulfill even if natural inclination is lacking, by exerting an effort of will.

Bank officials announced Friday that Puerto Rico has only $200m in cash in the operating account from which it was supposed to pay the general obligation bond debt.