Sentence examples for which obligations from inspiring English sources

I mean, which bills, which obligations, are we going to say we don't have to pay?

Possession of a marriage license is no longer the chief determinant of which obligations a couple must keep, either to their children or to each other.

But it still determines which obligations a couple can keep — who gets hospital visitation rights, family leave, health care and survivor's benefits.

Officials at the White House and the Treasury have said that contingency plans are in place, though they have repeatedly declined to provide details about which obligations would be met and which would be abandoned.

We illustrate the framework within the context of a concrete healthcare scenario in which obligations incurred from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are delegated and refined into software requirements.

China is typically regarded as a collectivistic culture, in which obligations to the greater society and social institutions (e.g., the family) are considered more important than individual traits and needs (Kwang 2001; Ting-Toomey et al. 1991).

The fugue is a model of an ideal society in which obligation and independence coexist, in which the individual is incomplete without the society and the society unthinkable without the individual, in which passion erupts but reason rules.

So, by analogy, some suggested systems of deontic logic in which obligation would be understood as truth at all morally perfect worlds.

However, the so-called natural goodness or evil of things, their ability to benefit or harm us, provide the rationale for the imposition of moral entitites by intelligent beings from which obligation springs.

The most well-developed account of why we should treat obligation as special is Adams', on which obligation is apt for theological voluntarist treatment because of its intrinsic link to demands made within social relationships (Adams 1987b, and Adams 1999, pp. 231 258).

When and if we are able to defend the claim that we have fundamental agent-relative special obligations, we need to determine which special obligations we have.