Sentence examples for traditional obligations from inspiring English sources

Many analysts and critics of the Brotherhood see that kind of philosophy, one that gives women independence so long as they maintain their traditional obligations, as effectively constraining women to established gender roles.

Many are senior cultural women who have, alongside their own traditional obligations, voluntarily preserved the region's choral heritage for most of their lives, singing the songs in traditional Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara languages, as well as Zulu, German and English.

This is leading to economic stratification within the Maa community, with an increasing spirit of competition and lessening communal and traditional obligations (to land and neighbour or clan member).

To begin, we can remember our traditional obligations to one another, and choose to be our brother's and our sister's keeper.

McLane recommends inviting close friends to wear a special accessory or recite a speech or poem during the ceremony so that they feel included, without all the stress or coordinating dresses, pre-wedding activities and other traditional obligations of bridal parties.

I am Lebanese American and was raised with all of the traditional obligations that came with my heritage -- things like asking your parents' permission for everything, not making a move not approved by the family (specifically your father and brothers) and putting the family unit above your individual needs, goals and objectives.

We now believe in duty to oneself in contrast to traditional obligation to others.

"He had this extraordinarily strong feeling of traditional obligation to serve the nation," Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense and Mr. Bundy's boss, said in an interview.

Over the past two or three decades the traditional obligation of an artist to aspire to a recognisable signature style has just about gone out of the window.

The 70,000-member association is suing in Federal District Court in Washington to try to force the F.T.C. to stop applying the rule to lawyers, contending that it undermines confidence in lawyers' traditional obligation of confidentiality.

The traditional obligation of members of all estates to perform service to the state, each according to his way of life (i.e., the nobleman by serving in the army and administration, the peasantry and merchants by paying taxes, the clergy by prayer), was given a modern, rational form by Peter.