Sentence examples for through obligation from inspiring English sources

The majority of political programming belongs to the genre of "public service" broadcasting, surviving in the schedules through obligation rather than desire.

And game theorist Ian Bogost has suggested that social games are more destructive of personal time than other kinds of gaming, saying that they "abuse us while we are away from them, through obligation, worry, and dread over missed opportunities".

As a crass French ambassador to Morocco notes in the film, the country is like a girlfriend one stays with through obligation more than anything else.

Brought together through obligation rather than desire, and with years of underlying resentment and competitiveness ready to surface, snips, jabs, and patronizing remarks are muttered as beers are passed around.

Brought together through obligation rather than desire, and with years of underlying resentment and competitiveness ready to surface, snips, jabs and patronising remarks are muttered as beers are passed around.

In contrast, this motivational approach facilitates behavioral change through an interactive process in two stages, creating internal motivation and reinforcing the commitment to change, rather than through reasoning, providing information, advice or encouragement, or through obligation.

Mortgage pass-through obligations?

Having identified the value, the G2 social game takes the idea of advancement through obligation-free collaboration… and throws out everything else.

Forces of ships were raised through obligations of a ship-levy through the system of ouncelands and pennylands, which have been argued to date back to the muster system of Dál Riata, but were probably introduced by Scandinavian settlers.

Clean energy development is subsidised through the Renewables Obligation, which obliges electricity companies to buy a certain amount of their electricity from renewable sources.

Schapiro (2009) refers to the use of Law as a tool of interventionism, happening through regulatory measures in the economic domain, either through the obligation to disclose information, to control market concentrations, to rule price stipulation or to determine property rights.