Obligation Sentence Examples

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  • Now, you have an obligation to the monster you created.

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  • There's no obligation in knowing what it is.

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  • The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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  • In fact, he was under no obligation to help her get back, either.

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  • Obviously being here was an obligation for both of them.

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  • It creates an obligation for me that I must honor.

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  • Paul was watching his son—a parental obligation thing—he didn't really like sports.

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  • I have this gift I never asked for but it's like I have an obligation to utilize it.

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  • He said the obligation was one way.

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  • This of course impaired the obligation of a contract, but under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States the bondholders could not bring suit against the state in the Federal courts.

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  • Their greatest social obligation had been the local church fund raiser.

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  • None of them seem to feel the slightest obligation to be responsive.

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  • Since concordats are contracts they give rise to that special mutual obligation which results from every agreement freely entered into; for a contract is binding on both parties to it.

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  • He was accepting his obligation to her while shutting off everything but the physical side of him.

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  • He met Ethel at a cocktail party both were attending by obligation and neither were enjoying.

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  • It creates a sort of obligation, he said mockingly.

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  • On the nature and obligation of concordats see Mgr.

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  • But I will consider your obligation to me complete, on one condition.

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  • It's my duty and obligation.

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  • She wasn't going to be some sort of obligation to someone who stuck around because he had to.

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  • He will protect her, as is his obligation.

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  • We are under obligation to obey the law revealed in the judgments of this faculty, for it is the law of our nature.

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  • The state is practically free from debt, the only obligation of this character being $ 1 35,5 00 in 6% bonds, payable in 1910, which were issued in behalf of the Agricultural College.

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  • The Cossacks were supposed to be left alone as much as possible by the Polish government so long as they faithfully fulfilled their chief obligation of guarding the frontiers of the Republic from Tatar raids.

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  • Moreover, it is in sympathy that he finds the obligation and sanction of morality.

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  • Philpot in a long reply, whilst maintaining the obligation of infant baptism, yet addresses his correspondent as, "dear brother, saint, and fellow-prisoner for the truth of Christ's gospel"; and at the close of his argument he says, "I beseech thee, dear brother in the gospel, follow the steps of the faith of the glorious martyrs in the primitive church, and of such as at this day follow the same."

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  • Creditor and debtor have also lost their Roman law signification; they have been narrowed to mean the parties where the obligation is the payment of a sum of money.

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  • A perfect obligation is one which is directly enforceable by legal proceedings; an imperfect or moral obligation (the naturalis obligatio of Roman law) is one in which the vinculum juris is in some respects incomplete, so that it cannot be directly enforced, though it is not entirely destitute of legal effect.

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  • The obligation, however, remains, though imperfect, for if there be a subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor, the debt revives, and the imperfect obligation becomes again perfect.

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  • The term obligation is important in America from its use in art.

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  • The problems to be solved were the frontier difficulty with Argentina, the question of the possession of Tacna and Arica with Peru, and the necessity of fulfilling the obligation contracted with Bolivia to give that country a seaport on the Pacific coast.

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  • Human law comes into existence when men recognize this obligation; justice is therefore natural and not something merely conventional.

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  • A neutral government is bound - (i) to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming or equipping within its jurisdiction of any vessel, which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace, and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use; (2) not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men; (3) to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its jurisdiction to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligation and duties.

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  • The councils of all administrative counties and county boroughs and the councils of a few specified quarter sessions boroughs, which before 1890 were independent areas for purposes of the Lunacy Acts, are local authorities for the purposes of the Lunacy Acts, and each of them is under an obligation to provide asylum accommodation for pauper lunatics.

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  • Questions as to the obligation of Mosaism and the relations of Jew and Gentile have utterly disappeared below the horizon.

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  • A theory of obligation is ultimately found to be inseparable from a metaphysic of personality.

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  • A small debt 2 (at the close of 1906, $4,398,839) is carried in the form of non-negotiable state certificates of indebtedness issued in exchange for money taken from the educational funds of the state, and is intended as a permanent obligation to those funds.

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  • Every fostered person was under an obligation to provide, if necessary, for the old age of foster-parents.

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  • They became of thegnright worthy by receiving, really or nominally, a place in the royal hail, with the obligation to take the field whenever their master raised his banner.

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  • But at any rate he always endeavoured to discharge an obligation, even if he sometimes interpreted it by the strict letter of the law and not with liberality.

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  • The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

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  • If it act not upon the terms but upon the remedy, it impairs the obligation if it purport to be retrospective, but it is valid so far as it applies to subsequent contracts.

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  • Employers were allowed to avoid the obligation to inform or consult if fewer than 20 people were made redundant at any one establishment.

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  • Not only can you save money on your energy bills, but some generators are also eligible to claim a Renewables Obligation Certificate.

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  • Latterly certain Catholics have questioned this equality of the concordatory obligation, and have aroused keen discussion.

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  • The subsequent coronation was marked by portentous novelties, the most significant of which was the king's omission to take the usual coronation oath, which omission was interpreted to mean that he considered himself under no obligation to his subjects.

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  • The government then had to readjust expenditures to largely diminished resources; but the obligation has been met intelligently and courageously, and since 1895 there has been an improvement in the financial state of the country.

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  • Paul was watching his son—a parental obligation thing—he didn't really like sports.

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  • Her letters to him, far from giving her any comfort, seemed to her a wearisome and artificial obligation.

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  • Free beauty samples are a great way to try out a new look without the financial obligation.

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  • The consultant will want you to purchase the makeup he or she used to create your new look, but you are not under any obligation to do so.

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  • It's both your prerogative and obligation to keep safety in mind at all times.

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  • It should be your choice, and not an obligation.

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  • However, a gift is not a requirement or obligation.

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  • Tips are offered to help make taxes less complicated and perhaps even help tax payers reduce their total tax obligation.

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  • Itcompleted the transformation of the army into a vassal army; it completed the recognition of feudalism by the state, as a legitimate relation between different ranks of the people; and it recognized the transformation in a great number of cases of a public duty into a private obligation.

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  • These were by no means the only rights and duties which could be described as existing in feudalism, but they are the most characteristic, and on them, or some of them, as a foundation, the whole structure of feudal obligation was built, however detailed.

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  • New forms of organization had arisen in which indeed these conceptions had not entirely disappeared, but in which the vast majority of cases a wholly different idea of the ground of service and obligation prevailed.

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  • But the members of the feudal court met, not to fulfil a duty owed to the community, but a private obligation which they had assumed in return for the fiefs they held, and in the history of institutions it is differences of this sort which are the determining principles.

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  • Her festival was celebrated in many places with the utmost splendour, and in certain dioceses in France was a holy day of obligation as late as the beginning of the 17th century.

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  • Hence the fear with which the political, religious and social controls were regarded came to be associated also with the specifically moral control of lower by higher feelings, and engendered the coercive element in the feeling of obligation.

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  • The metropolitans now commonly assumed the title of archbishop to mark their preeminence over the other bishops; at the same time the obligation imposed upon them, mainly at the instance of St Boniface, to receive thepallium from Rome, definitely marked the defeat of their claim to exercise metropolitan jurisdiction independently of the pope.

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  • It deals with the Bible as the final appeal in controversy, the doctrines of God, man, sin, the Incarnation, the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, " both the Son of man and the Son of God," the work of the Holy Spirit, justification by faith, the perpetual obligation of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, final judgment, the law of Christian fellowship. The same principles have been lucidly stated in the Evangelical Free Church catechism.

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  • The administration of the navy, called upon as it was to deal with a war of unprecedented magnitude, was overtaxed by the obligation to refit ships, raise crews, and provide for the numerous sick or wounded.

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  • He was zealous also in the cause of foreign missions, and in a sermon preached at the opening of the new century he urged that a supreme obligation rested upon Britain at this epoch in the world's history to seek to evangelize all nations.

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  • According to the Domesday, Amesbury was a royal manor and did not pay geld, but was under the obligation of providing one night's entertainment for the king.

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  • The absence of the chief magistrate for more than a single day rendered the appointment of a praefect obligatory; but the obligation only arose when all the higher magistrates were absent.

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  • Under the common law of Scotland, a submission of future disputes or differences to an arbiter, or arbiters, unnamed, was ineffectual except where the agreement to refer did not contemplate the decision of proper disputes between the parties but the adjustment of some condition, or the liquidation of some obligation, contained in the contract of which the agreement to submit formed a part.

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  • It was decided, however, by the Austrian financial authorities that the obligation of the Austro-Hungarian Bank to convert its notes into gold on demand should remain suspended as hitherto, owing to fear lest the renewal of the obligation of the bank to cash its notes in gold should lead to a rise in the rate of interest.

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  • Hungary, on the other hand, striving for access to the money markets of the West, desired that the obligation of the Austro-Hungarian Bank to cash its notes should be explicitly mentioned in the law, in order to make the public loans rank as easily negotiable securities on foreign bourses.

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  • Hungary's wishes were met by the introduction of a specially prompt procedure for the eventual future abolition of the suspension of the bank's obligation to cash its notes.

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  • It was a bold conception - too bold for the medieval world, for which faith was primarily the obligation to believe.

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  • To overlook the Cyrenaic recognition of social obligation and the hedonistic value of altruistic emotion is a very common expedient of those who are opposed to all hedonistic theories of life.

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  • In fundamental principles he follows almost entirely Locke and Pufendorf; but he works out with great skill the theory of moral obligation, referring it to the command or will of God.

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  • He suggests as the mode of enforcing this obligation the requirement of submission to a test examination "before any one could obtain the freedom in any corporation, or be allowed to set up a trade in any village or town corporate."

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  • In his lectures he excluded mental philosophy and included the whole sphere of moral obligation, dealing with man's duty to God and to his fellow-men in the light of Christian teaching.

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  • In ethics he made contributions to the science in regard to the place and functions of volition and attention, the separate and underived character of the moral sentiments, and the distinction between the virtues of perfect and imperfect obligation.

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  • In this original scheme it is clearly marked out "that this entire Society and all its members fight for God under the faithful obedience of the most sacred lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs his successors"; and Ignatius makes particular mention th4t each member should "be bound by a special vow," beyond that formal obligation under which all Christians are of obeying the pope, "so that whatsoever the present and other Roman pontiffs for the time being shall ordain, pertaining to the advancement of souls and the propagation of the faith, to whatever provinces he shall resolve to send us, we are straightway bound to obey, as far as in us lies, without any tergiversation or excuse, whether he send us among the Turks or to any other unbelievers in being, even to those parts called India, or to any heretics or schismatics or likewise to any believers."

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  • The question of missions is reserved, and the relaxations granted to the Society in such matters as fasting, reciting the hours and reading heretical books, are withdrawn; while the breve ends with clauses carefully drawn to bar any legal exceptions that might be taken against its full validity and obligation.

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  • If he marries, it is to have children who may celebrate them after his death; if he has no children, he lies under the strongest obligation to adopt them from another family, ` with a view,' writes the Hindu doctor, ` to the funeral cake, the water and the solemn sacrifice.'" "May there be born in our lineage," so the Indian Manes are supposed to say, "a man to offer to us, on the thirteenth day of the moon, rice boiled in milk, honey and ghee."

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  • In 1134 Bahrain Shah failed in this obligation and brought on himself 1 See Defremery, Journ.

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  • Peck (6 Cranch 87) that such a rescindment as that in the new state constitution was illegal, on the ground that a state cannot pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts; and at an expense of more than four millions of dollars the Federal government ultimately extinguished all claims to the lands.

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  • The state appealed to the National government to endeavour to secure further cessions, but none had been made when, in 1802, the United States assumed its obligation to extinguish all Indian titles within the state.

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  • Adams treated the Cherokees with the courtesy due to a sovereign nation, and held that the United States had done all that was required to meet the obligation assumed in 1802.

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  • From the point of view of diminishing the possible causes of conflict among nations, the adoption of this principle as one of international contractual obligation would be of great utility.

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  • Perforce thou must consult before everything the general interest of Christendom, and must consider it an obligation of thine office to respect the opinions of the highest dignitaries of the court of Rome."

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  • In 1294, and again in 1303, they laid themselves under an obligation, previously to the election, to subscribe to the political engagements which each promised rigorously to observe in the event of his becoming pope.

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  • Church republican France thereupon destroyed the Roman republic. Napoleon lost 1200 in dead and wounded, actually secured not a single reform on which he had insisted, and drew upon himself the fateful obligation to mount perpetual guard over the Vatican.

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  • He was appointed director of the laboratory in 1825; and in 1833 he was appointed Fullerian professor of chemistry in the institution for life, without the obligation to deliver lectures.

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  • These actions of the state assembly against the college and the bank probably were immediate causes for the insertion in the Federal Constitution (adopted by the convention in Philadelphia in 1787) of the clause (proposed by James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a friend of the college and of the bank) forbidding any state to pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts.

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  • The fall of Napoleon having now freed the British government from the obligation to retain its army in Europe, troops from Spain began to pour in.

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  • Again in 1731 the Moravians (q.v.) illustrated in a signal degree the growing consciousness of obligation towards the heathen.

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  • The district was surrounded by a wall within which the Beguines lived in separate small houses, subject to no rule save the obligation of good works, and of chastity so long as they remained members of the community.

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  • By the 15th century in many cases they had utterly sunk in reputation, their obligation to nurse the sick was quite neglected, and they had, rightly or wrongly, acquired the reputation of being mere nests of beggars and women of ill fame.

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  • Then all France awoke to a sense of her obligation to him, and his public funeral on the 6th of January 1883 evoked one of the most overwhelming displays of national sentiment ever witnessed on a similar occasion.

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  • The latter Mansel's psychology reduces to consciousness of our organism as extended; with the former is given consciousness of free will and moral obligation.

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  • By further laws, in 1885 and 1892, this obligation was extended to certain other classes of workers, and the system was further modified by acts passed in 1900 and 1903.

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  • At the menace of her armaments, concentrated on the Rhine, Napoleon had stopped dead in the full career of victory; Austria, in the eyes of German men, had been placed under an obligation to her rival; and Italy realized the emergence of a new military power, whose interests in antagonism to Austria were identical with her own.

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  • Each state, however small, maintains its own contingent, subject to its own prince, who has the right and the obligation of administering it according to the provisions of the treaty by which he entered the federation.

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  • The whole of the Prussian military system, inciuding not only the obligation to military service, but the rules for recruiting, organization, drill and uniforms, has to be followed in all the states; all the contingents are under the command of the emperor, and the soldiers have to swear obedience to him in addition to the oath of allegiance to their own sovereign.

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  • The obligation to insure rested on all who were in receipt of wages of not more than two pounds a week.

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  • This did not seem to remove all danger, and in February 1888 the government introduced an amendment to the imperial Military Law extending the obligation for service from twelve to eighteen years.

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  • In the minds of Austrian statesmen the question of the free navigation of the Danube, which would have been imperilled by a Russian occupation of the Principalities, outweighed their sense of obligation to Russia, on which the emperor Nicholas had rashly relied.

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  • We are told by Dr Derham in his Life of Ray that the reason of his refusal "was not (as some have imagined) his having taken the ` Solemn League and Covenant,' for that he never did, and often declared that he ever thought it an unlawful oath; but he said he could not declare for those that had taken the oath that no obligation lay upon them, but feared there might."

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  • From the root idea of obligation to serve or give something in return, involved in the conception of duty, have sprung various derivative uses of the word; thus it is used of the services performed by a minister of a church, by a soldier, or by any employee or servant.

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  • All tenants are under obligation to guard or repair the banks of the Nile in times of flood, or in any case of sudden emergency.

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  • The whole country is divided into districts, in each of which a medical man is appointed with a salary, who is under the obligation to attend to poor sick and assist the authorities in medical matters, inquests, &c. The relief of the poor is well organized, mostly on the system of out-door relief.

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  • The identity of the Decalogue with the eternal law of nature was maintained in both churches, but it was an open question whether the Decalogue, as such (that is, as a law given by Moses to the Israelites), is of perpetual obligation.

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  • The main controversy which arose on the basis of this distinction was whether the prescription of one day in seven is of permanent obligation.

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  • It was admitted that such obligation must be not natural but positive; but it was argued by the stricter Calvinistic divines that the proportion of one in seven is agreeable to nature, based on the order of creation in six days, and in no way specially connected with anything Jewish.

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  • Castlereagh, whose single-minded aim was the restoration of "a just equilibrium" in Europe, reproached the tsar to his face for a " conscience " which suffered him to imperil the concert of the powers by keeping his hold on Poland in violation of his treaty obligation.'

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  • Added to this there was still in the background the veteran statesman to whom Liberalism owed an unequalled obligation.

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  • The place to be visited was not specified; but the pilgrim, who was bound by an open letter of his bishop to disclose himself as a pentitent, lay under the obligation, wherever he went, to repair to the churches and - more especially - the tombs of the saints, and there offer his prayers.

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  • In the 11th century the indulgence consisted in a remission of part of the penance imposed in the confessional, in return for the discharge of some obligation voluntarily assumed by the penitent.

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  • Such women may sometimes have been foreigners, but the sage's concern is with the man's violation of the marriage obligation, be the woman Jew or Gentile.

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  • An obligation to pay money on a certain day is theoretically discharged if the money is paid before midnight of the day on which it falls due, but custom has so far modified this that the law requires reasonable hours to be observed.

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  • Severus evidently approves the action of the British and Gaulish bishops, who deemed it unbecoming that they should lie under pecuniary obligation to the emperor.

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  • It is to be noted that this did not involve the obligation of interfering with the ancient constitution of Sicily, which Metternich desired to see remain undisturbed.

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  • The judicial committee, however, rested its decision chiefly on the allegation that the acquisition of the territory was an act of state and that "no municipal court had authority to enforce such an obligation" as the duty of the new government to respect existing titles.

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  • The king in 1224 required the bailiffs and good men of Dartmouth to keep all ships in readiness for his service, and in 1302 they were to furnish two ships for the Scottish expedition, an obligation maintained throughout the century.

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  • Its members are priests, who are bound by the obligation of celibacy, live under a common rule and with a common purse.

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  • In his fundamental theory of judgment his obligation is to Bradley.

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  • These building plots were given as free property or, more frequently, at a merely nominal rent (Wurtzins) with the right of free disposal, the only obligation being that of building a house.

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  • The homestead of a householder who is the head of a family or of any resident of the state who has attained the age of sixty years is exempt, to the value of $1500, or 160 acres of land, from execution and attachment arising from any debt, contract or civil obligation other than taxes, purchase money or improvements, so long as it is occupied by the owner or his or her family, and the exemption inures for the benefit of a widow, widower or minor children.

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  • He was the author of The Military Obligation of Citizenship (1915, lectures at Prince ton and elsewhere); Our Military History, Its Facts and Fallacies (1916); and Universal Military Training (1917).

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  • It is doubtless a sense of filial obligation coupled with sentiments of piety and reverence that gave rise to this practice of offering gifts of food and drink to the deceased ancestors.

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  • The subsequent expenditure in the port is said not to flow from that sacrifice, but from the necessity of completing the voyage, and is incurred in performance of the shipowner's obligation under his contract.

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  • The policy commonly contains clauses which recognize such an obligation, e.g.

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  • It is said that he refused to conform to the rules for regular attendance at chapel, and that he protested both against the enforced celibacy of fellows and the obligation to take holy orders within seven years of their election.

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  • The real origin of these fasts and the date of their introduction are alike uncertain; it is manifest, however, that the observance of them was voluntary, and never made a matter of universal obligation.

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  • This distinction is due to the claim of the Roman Catholic Church to be the only Church, her laws being thus of universal obligation; whereas the laws of the various established Protestant Churches are valid - at least so far as legal obligation is concerned - only within the limits of the countries in which they are established.

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  • Locke had some apprehension of this transcendent intellectual obligation.

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  • These difficulties arise quite naturally from the obligation, which metaphysicians, theologians, moral philosophers, men of science, and psychologists alike recognize, to give an account, consistent with their theories, of the relation of man's power of deliberate and purposive activity to the rest of the universe.

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  • Moreover, without a belief in the freedom of the will the conception of moral obligation upon which the existence of morality depends and from which all other moral terms derive their meaning loses its chief significance.

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  • What is opposed to obligation, or at least always distinguished from it, is that very domain of necessity within which determinists would bring the will.

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  • For even when the felt obligation is absolute, where the will is completely moralized, where it is inconceivable in the case of a good man that the act which he performs should be other than it is, there the obligation which he recognizes is an obligation to choose autonomously, and as such is distinguished from desire or appetite or any of the other alleged determinants of action.

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  • Hedonistic psychology denied the libertarian hypothesis, but it denied also the absoluteness and intuitive character of moral obligation, and attached no validity to the ordinary interpretation of terms like "ought" and duty.

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  • It is sometimes maintained that the proper method of ethics is the psychological method; ethics, we are told, should examine as its subject-matter moral sentiments wherever found, without raising ultimate questions as to the nature of obligation or moral authority in general.

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  • His account of the sanction, again, is sufficiently comprehensive, including both the internal and the external rewards of virtue and punishments of vice; and he, like later utilitarians, explains moral' obligation to lie in the force exercised on the will by these sanctions; but as to the precise manner in which individual is implicated with universal good, and the operation of either or both in determining volition, his view is indistinct if not actually inconsistent.

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  • But to Butler's more cautious mind the completeness of this harmony did not seem sufficiently demonstrable to be taken as a basis of moral teaching; he has at least to contemplate the possibility of a man being convinced of the opposite; and he argues that unless we regard conscience as essentially authoritative - which is not implied in the term " moral sense " - such a man is really bound to be vicious; " since interest, one's own happiness, is a manifest obligation."

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  • The object of this sympathetic resentment, impelling us to punish, is what we call injustice; and thus the remarkable stringency of the obligation to act justly is explained, since the recognition of any action as unjust involves the admission that it may be forcibly obstructed or punished.

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  • So Hume insists emphatically on the " reality of moral obligation "; but is found to mean no more by this than the real existence of the likes and dislikes that human beings feel for each other's qualities.

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  • Firstly, his conception of " right " and " wrong " as " single ideas " incapable of definition or analysis - the notions " right," " fit," " ought," " duty," " obligation," being coincident or identical - at least avoids the confusions into which Clarke and Wollaston had been led by pressing the analogy between ethical and physical truth.

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  • Not that he repudiates the obligation either of rational benevolence or self-love; on the contrary, he takes more pains than Butler to demonstrate the reasonableness of either principle.

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  • As regards the moral faculty itself, Reid's statement coincides in the main with Price's; it is both intellectual and active, not merely perceiving the " rightness " or " moral obligation " of actions (which Reid conceives as a simple unanalysable relation between act and agent), but also impelling the will to the performance of what is seen to be right.

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  • Stewart lays stress on the obligation of justice as distinct from benevolence; but his definition of justice represents it as essentially impartiality, - a virtue which (as was just now said of Reid's fourth principle) must equally find a place in the utilitarian or any other system that lays down universally applicable rules of morality.

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  • But in fact the difference between intuitionists and utilitarians as to the method of determining the particulars of the moral code was complicated with a more fundamental disagreement as to the very meaning of " moral obligation."

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  • To be " obliged " is to be " urged by a violent motive resulting from the command of another "; in the case of moral obligation, the command proceeds from God, and the motive lies in the expectation of being rewarded and punished after this life.

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  • Obligation is the necessity of doing or omitting something in order to be happy..

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  • Full and complete obligation which will extend to all cases can only be that arising from the authority of God..

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  • Like Price he holds that an action is not good unless done from a good motive, and that this motive must be essentially different from natural inclination of any kind; duty, to be duty, must be done for duty's sake; and he argues, with more subtlety than Price or Reid, that though a virtuous act is no doubt pleasant to the virtuous agent, and any violation of duty painful, this moral pleasure (or pain) cannot strictly be the motive to the act, because it follows instead of preceding the recognition of our obligation to do it.'

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  • The exclusion of private happiness from the ends at which it is a duty to aim contrasts strikingly with the view of Butler and Reid, that man, as a rational being, is under manifest obligation " to seek his own interest.

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  • Darwin himself seems never to have questioned, in the sceptical direction in which his followers have applied his principles, the absolute character of moral obligation.

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  • Finally, side by side with a theory of the nature of moral obligation thus fundamentally empirical and a posteriori in its outlook, he maintains in his account of justice the existence of the idea of justice as distinct from a mere sentiment, carrying with it an a priori belief in its existence and identical in its a priori and intuitive character with the ultimate criterion of Utilitarianism itself.

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  • For the belief that moral obligation is absolute in character, that it is alike impossible to explain its origin and transcend its laws, would make the search for a scientific criterion of conduct to be deduced from the laws of life and conditions of existence meaningless, if not absurd.

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  • His accounts of the genesis of the conceptions of obligation and responsibility as of most of the ultimate conceptions with which moral philosophy deals will be accepted or rejected to the extent to which the main contention concerning the psychological basis of ethics commends itself to the reader.

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  • In his system the doctrine of duty is the description of the method of the attainment of ethical ends, the conception of duty as an imperative, or obligation, being excluded, as we have seen.

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  • A Land Purchase Bill was accordingly introduced on the 16th of April by the prime minister under " an obligation of honour and policy," to use his own words.

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  • Fronde The victor of Lens and Charenton imagined that every of the one was under an obligation to him, and laid claim to a dictatorship so insupportable that Anne of Austria and Mazarin assured by Gondi of the concurrence of the parlement and peoplehad him arrested.

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  • Finally, he who devotes himself on principle to furthering the good of others as his highest moral obligation is from the highest point of view realizing, not sacrificing, himself.

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  • They were under an obligation to furnish a contingent to the Roman army for foreign service, but were allowed to maintain garrisons of their own, and their magistrates had the right to call out a militia.

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  • For in man self-determination and mechanical determination by empirical motives coexist, and only in so far as he belongs and is conscious of belonging both to the sphere of sense and to the sphere of reason does moral obligation become possible for him.

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  • The Albigensian theologians and ascetics, the Cathari or perfecti, known in the south of France as bons hommes or bons chretiens, were few in number; the mass of believers (credentes) were perhaps not initiated into the Catharist doctrine; at all events, they were free from all moral prohibition and all religious obligation, on condition that they promised by an act called convenenza to become " hereticized " by receiving the consolamentum, the baptism of the Spirit, before their death or even in extremis.

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  • You have more than fulfilled any obligation to me and if this marvelous enterprise ends tomorrow you'll continue to be paid as at present.

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  • The blood bond is the greatest obligation a demon can take to another.

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  • She'd learned a lot lately about how obligation held more sway in the Immortal society than truth or emotion.

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  • No obligation to hear the terms.

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  • She was more than an obligation, if he chose to keep her when he didn't have to.

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  • Gabriel sensed he was trying to balance his natural inclination to be discreet with his obligation to serve the deity that raised him from the dead-dead.

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  • Failure to sign the time sheet does not absolve the client's obligation to pay the charges for the hours worked.

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  • This pedagogical imperative includes the obligation to inquire into the consequences of one's work with students.

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  • The Authority intends in future to invite applicants to enter into an obligation prior to consent for new housing being decided.

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  • Just doing one atm - shall tag you, tho don't feel under any obligation!

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  • Duty faith tries to lay on men an obligation to believe when they cannot, and a warrant to believe when they cannot, and a warrant to believe what they know not.

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  • The Pensions Act 2004 also imposes a statutory obligation on ' whistleblowers ' to report suspected breaches of the legislation to the regulator.

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  • Moral obligation and evaluation A territory to which even most scientists do not usually lay claim is that of obligation.

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  • We can provide free and without obligation legal advice, and explain what making an accident compensation claim could mean for you.

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  • There is an emphasis on celebrating together rather than ' saying the Office ' as a private and exclusively clerical obligation.

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  • This represented a partial victory for the ACP position that there should be no obligation to grant reciprocal concessions.

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  • You can contact us on a totally confidential, no obligation, no fee basis to discuss how we can best support you.

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  • Two years ago, the ROC initiated a pilot program to allow conscientious objectors to fulfill their military service obligation in the diplomatic corps.

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  • The obligation to operate PAYE applies where the asset in its enhanced state is a readily convertible asset.

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  • Caution involves a secondary obligation on the cautioner that is coextensive with the primary obligation of the principal debtor.

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  • The adjudicator's decision, although not finally determinative, may give rise to an immediate payment obligation.

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  • A legal document recording an obligation to pay a sum of money, or acknowledging a present or future debt.

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  • Please do not regard this request as an obligation, I fully appreciate the enormity of a task such as this.

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  • You are under an obligation to provide employees with a safe working environment.

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  • Information slips supplied and even fitted to boards on site erected by your own sign erector or contractor with no obligation to have the.

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  • Good faith The civilian systems subscribe to a continuing obligation to exercise good faith The civilian systems subscribe to a continuing obligation to exercise good faith.

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  • Absolutely no obligation our plans for to mickey mouse trailer hitch cover financial loss the risk of.

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  • This is an obligation of a truly humane society toward all human beings.

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  • The insurer is under no obligation to inform the insured in cases where the carrying ship does not comply with the ICC.

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  • In announcing a moratorium, India has already accepted the basic obligation of the CTBT.

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  • My question is not regarding the obligation to grow the beard and trim the mustache.

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  • The regulations do not impose an obligation to remove asbestos in all cases of discovery.

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  • It is the sum of money received by the seller for incurring the obligation, having sold the rights of the option.

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  • Secondly, you have a legal obligation to complete the purchase contract.

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  • A moral obligation for the West to talk with Hamas.

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  • A prima facie obligation is one ' that must be fulfilled unless it conflicts on a particular occasion with an equal or stronger obligation.

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  • Breach of the implied obligation 65 Two preliminary observations must be made.

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  • The obligation (embodied within the license agreements) to keep data " forever " was not considered onerous at the time.

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  • Under the regulation, there is an obligation on employers not to exclude part-timers from training.

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  • On 9 January 1987 he acknowledged paternity and undertook to pay maintenance for C. He fulfilled this obligation regularly.

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  • On the one hand, the obligation to perform the pilgrimage is an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

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  • On 6 th May a Bill was introduced in the Commons, imposing the obligation of signing the protestation upon all true Englishmen.

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  • A whole senate, a whole people, cannot dispense from its paramount obligation.

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  • It even would be difficult to determine the stringency of a prima facie obligation to keep a promise.

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  • Why bother with substitute sources of stand-in obligation when, thanks to having become moral saints, act utilitarianism will fortunately always do?

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  • Visitors Fees We welcome visitors Fees We welcome visitors to our weekly meetings;, there is no obligation to join.

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  • Your obligation is based upon the packaging that you handle not the packaging waste in your own bins.

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  • A community whose mission it is to teach religious truth, which involves on the part of its members the obligation of belief in this truth, must, if it is not to fail of its object, possess an authority capable of maintaining the faith in its purity, and consequently capable of keeping it free from and condemning errors.

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  • Others, while recognizing the supreme authority of the papal magisterium in matters of doctrine, confine the infallibility to those cases alone in which the pope chooses to make use of it, and declares positively that he is imposing on all the faithful the obligation of belief in a certain definite proposition, under pain of heresy and exclusion from the Church; they do not insist on any special form, but only require that the pope should clearly manifest his will to the Church.

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  • In 1889 a very important act was passed placing upon the Board of Trade the obligation to call upon railway companies throughout the United Kingdom (1) to adopt upon all passenger lines the " block " system of working; (2) to " interlock " their points and signals; (3) to fit all trains carrying passengers with some form of automatic continuous brake.

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  • Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848), a lawyer of the first rank, Jeremiah Smith and Webster appeared for the college, and argued that these acts were invalid because they were not within the general scope of the legislature's power, because they violated provisions of the state constitution and because they violated the clause of the Federal Constitution which prohibits a state from impairing the obligation of contracts but the court decided against them.

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  • Saunders, heard in 1824 and reheard in 1827, in which the question was the validity or invalidity of the insolvent laws of the several states, Webster argued that the clause prohibiting a state from impairing the obligation of contracts applied to future as well as to past contracts, but the court decided against him.

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  • During the famine of 1770-1771 he enforced on landowners "the obligation of relieving the poor" and especially the metayers dependent upon them, and organized in every province ateliers and bureaux de charite for providing work for the able-bodied and relief for the infirm, while at the same time he condemned indiscriminate charity.

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  • On the other hand, the vassal was not bound to render service, unless he were paid for his service; and it was only famine, or Saracen devastation, which freed the king from the obligation of paying his men.

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  • But as the colony had no voice in the Cortes, while the " special laws " were never passed (Cuba expected special fundamental laws, reforming her government, and the government regarded the old Laws of the Indies as satisfying the obligation of the constitution) the arbitrary rule of the captains-general remained quite supreme, under the will of the crown, and colonial discontent became stronger and stronger.

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  • Thus a civil career was open to the equites without the obligation of preliminary military service, and the emperor was freed from the pernicious influence of freedmen.

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  • Like Poland two centuries later, Hungary had ceased to be a civilized autonomous state because her prelates and her magnates, uncontrolled by any higher authority, and too ignorant or corrupt to look beyond their own immediate interests, abandoned themselves to the exclusive enjoyment of their inordinate privileges, while openly repudiating their primal obligation of defending the state against extraneous enemies.

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  • But what Barnabas did see with full reasoned conviction, he was staunch in upholding; thus he upheld the general cause of Gentile freedom from the obligation of circumcision (as distinct from perfect religious equality with Jewish believers) at the Jerusalem conference (Acts xv.).

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  • In its detached yet intimate way, this is a model of the art by which a good judge of men, possessed at the same time of a just historical sense, may, from the point of view of a contemporary on the opposite side in politics, correct the perspective of an official biography written under the limitations of filial obligation, and give tone and value to the picture of an interesting personality.

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  • Both regular and secular clergy (those at least in major orders) are under the obligation of celibacy, which, by cutting them off from the most intimate common interests of the people, has proved a most powerful disciplinary force in the hands of the popes (see Celibacy).

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  • This is your obligation, and may otherwise render a permit invalid.

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  • Trying to keep absolutely no obligation program recently changed a toy cara.

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  • The United Kingdom has thus failed to fulfill its obligation to transpose those provisions into domestic law.

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  • Visitors Fees We welcome visitors to our weekly meetings; ,there is no obligation to join.

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  • Even when a wedding registry only lists expensive gifts, you are not under any obligation to purchase one.

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  • Part of your obligation as a pet owner is to keep up-to-date records on your cat.

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  • Your obligation as a pet owner is to provide a fresh and wholesome diet with clean water available at all times.

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  • All it takes is a signature to make the financial obligation legally binding.

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  • This act dictates how to legally respond to these situations in order to preserve your rights as well as limiting your financial obligation for unauthorized charges.

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  • This allows borrowers to rid themselves of a debt obligation while also allowing the creditor or collection agency to receive more funds than they would if the debt went ignored or into bankruptcy.

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  • This low monthly payment obligation can be very helpful for people trying to temporarily lower their monthly bills due to an impending job change, move, or other reason.

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  • Hire an attorney if creditors are persistently hassling you for payment to accounts that are not your legal obligation.

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  • This type of financial obligation is generally regarded as one of the most toxic debts because interest is perpetually charged on balances that are not secured by anything gaining value or appreciating.

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  • The obligation to pay child support can not be erased by declaring bankruptcy.

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  • Once you have applied for enforcement services through your local county government, there will be an immediate demand upon the delinquent parent to pay the child support obligation.

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  • Teen parents need to note that this obligation to pay child support does not change simply because they have moved on to another relationship or married someone else.

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  • When a child is born, both parents have a moral and legal obligation to contribute to his or her support.

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  • Giving a gift should be from your heart and not out of obligation or because you are trying to outshine other, more traditional gifts with your unusual choice.

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  • Rihanna also decided to talk about the incident because she felt as though she had an obligation to her fans to let them know that domestic violence is not okay, anytime or anyplace.

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  • For a free, no obligation price quote, fill out the information on the MyTravel website.

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  • There's no obligation involved, and who knows what you may find?

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  • We see it as an ongoing obligation to the planet.

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  • Seniors who live in a nursing home can report incidents of abuse to the management; they have an obligation to investigate and take action in cases of abuse.

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  • Users could pay $5 a month for access to these bonus features but were under no obligation to do so.

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  • However, like other prepaid plans, this option usually does not come with subsidized cell phone hardware as no contractual obligation is involved.

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  • The church is under no obligation to release any information.

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  • Both Ginnie Mae and Home Fair offer easy-to-use tools with no obligation.

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  • If you wish to learn more about any of these mortgage products or if you are interested in receiving a free, no obligation mortgage quote, visit the official Wells Fargo website at www.Wellsfargo.com.

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  • In turn, owning an expensive home, and taking on the obligation of decades of large monthly payments, may not fit into some people's current or desired lifestyle.

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  • Chapter 13 - Applicants may qualify after completing one year of the pay-out period if they receive court approval to take on the mortgage obligation.

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  • In every foreclosure, however, it begins with the borrower not meeting a financial obligation and ends with the borrower losing ownership of the home.

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  • Unpaid mortgages can decrease profits so lenders do have an obligation to their stockholders.

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  • Like any other major financial obligation, a mortgage refinance should be approached with caution and only after extensive research has been done.

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  • Do not feel as though you need to rush into purchasing another home as soon as possible, because you want to make sure you are financially ready for this obligation again.

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  • A foreclosure occurs when a homeowner is not able to meet the monthly financial obligation of the mortgage payment.

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  • If your home has some equity, meaning it is worth more than what you owe to the lender, contact your lender as soon as you realize you are unable to meet your monthly payment obligation.

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  • Any of these calculators, when you input the right information, can give you a wealth of knowledge about what your mortgage obligation will look like and what mortgage amount you can afford to take on.

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  • Most lenders offer no obligation quotes without cost.

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  • Try to overcome guilt and feelings of obligation and evaluate what your child will still be using come April.

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  • America is a country filled with very patriotic citizens who feel a loyalty and an obligation to the nation.

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  • Finally, one of many reasons why people volunteer is out of obligation.

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  • Those who have been ordered by a court to do community service are forced to volunteer out of obligation.

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  • If you're buying Christmas gifts out of an obligation to someone, approach him/her with the idea of meeting each other for dinner instead of exchanging gifts.

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  • Traveling during the holidays can be tiresome, whether it is for pleasure, work or family obligation.

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  • When this experience is reciprocated, caring for a partner is out of love and not out of a sense of obligation.

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  • Because the two of you have not experienced dating, your statement sounds like you are willing to travel 300 miles to meet a man you have never met before out of concern and obligation and not from reciprocated love.

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  • You are under no obligation to reveal the details.

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  • This means that even though nothing may be going on between you and this 14-year-old girl, a mandated reporter has an obligation to report the relationship to the police if they suspect that you are behaving inappropriately.

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  • Often a woman will try to push aside those negative feelings surfacing prior to the wedding out of a sense of embarrassment, fear, or obligation.

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  • The key to these encounters is to recognize they are not relationships in the typical sense of the word and neither party is under obligation to the other.

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  • With marriage comes a great deal of financial obligation.

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  • You feel an obligation to take care of the subjects of your kingdom, and your shoulders gladly bear the weight of the world whenever necessary and many times, when it isn't necessary or even your responsibility.

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  • Just like a king ruling over his kingdom, Leo has a sense of obligation to take care of his subjects.

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  • When the smallest debt is repaid, you take the money you were spending on that debt and apply it to the next obligation.

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  • Whether it's for a family emergency, work obligation, or a quick getaway, most people experience the frustrations that come with booking last minute travel.

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  • For a free no obligation trial go to GoToMeeting.com or call (800) 372-6207.

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  • Note that companies are under no obligation to use this list maintained by the Direct Marketing Association, so putting your name on the list may suppress some, but not all unsolicited mail.

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  • This means if you sell individual items or otherwise earn money from multiple people, it is your obligation to keep track of income earned and to send a record of it to the IRS.

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  • You should not pay for using these services, and there should be no obligation associated with the use of these tools.

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  • You can receive a no obligation free consultation at 1-800-331-4035.

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  • If you really are interested in trying this program, schedule a no obligation, free consultation with a counselor at your local center.

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  • This list is not exhaustive, but each of these companies allows you to obtain a no risk, no obligation quote on its website at no charge.

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  • If you have already read up on the AARP Life Insurance Program and want to compare prices or receive a no obligation quote, you can use the Quick Quote Wizard found on the AARP Life Insurance website.

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  • You can also call 1-800-704-2180 for a free, no obligation quote.

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  • If you change your mind for any reason, you can cancel the policy without further financial obligation.

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  • In addition to providing guaranteed, no obligation quotes, the service also allows consumers to purchase a policy from the insurance company of their choice.

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  • This service allows consumers to call a toll free number for insurance advice and no obligation quotes.

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  • As a business owner you might also feel a real sense of obligation to provide quality benefits to your employees and their dependents.

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  • Do you need life insurance to cover a mortgage or definite fixed obligation which might best be addressed with term insurance?

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  • This allows policyholders a better understanding beforehand of what their financial obligation for dental procedures will be.

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  • Moreover, physicians providing this type of care are under no obligation to notify the parent or legal guardian of any services provided if they feel that doing so is not in the best interest of the child.

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  • The danger of getting higher deductibles, however, is that a medical illness or emergency may result in a devastating financial burden as the result of the policyholder's obligation.

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  • You may also obtain a free, no obligation quote that will give you a better idea of what buying protection through Liberty Mutual will cost.

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  • You will receive these CDs even after you meet your obligation to purchase one at full price until you actively cancel your membership.

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  • Before this point, her religious upbringing was primarily in the hands of her parents, but now the obligation turns to the pre-teen.

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  • While direct sales can be a challenging career choice, Spa Girl does have the advantage of not requiring you to purchase any merchandise to sell, and outside of their monthly fee, there is no financial obligation to maintain membership.

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  • They also have a contractual obligation to TLC to continue their series, at least for the time being.

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  • During the sixth season, Jonas earned a place on SG1 and tried to fulfill Daniel's mission out of honor and obligation.

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  • These withholdings are transferred to the IRS at least quarterly and count toward a taxpayer's total yearly tax obligation.

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  • Deidre wasn't certain if there was any affection for his daughter, though his persistence in healing her was a sign of either care or obligation.

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  • It never sat well with him that those charged with enforcing Death's mission served not out of choice but obligation to the deity that stole their souls.

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  • Deidre glanced at Darkyn in puzzlement, and Gabriel realized she didn't yet understand the depth of the Dark One's obligation to her.

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  • I am simply collecting on the debt, as is my obligation.

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  • Pensive, he swallowed hard and finally admitted that he didn't want her to be his by obligation, the way he'd been enslaved to past-Deidre.

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  • He felt an obligation to Ethel Rosewater but by the looks of the crowd his presence was unnecessary.

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  • The White God didn't invite the Original Vamp into his home out of a sense of kindness or moral obligation.

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  • In 1865, however, it was suppressed, and one half of the beni ademprivili was assigned to the state, the other half being given to the communes, with the obligation of compensating those who claimed rights over these lands.

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  • But with these reservations it must unhesitatingly be said that concordats are bilateral or synallagmatic contracts, from which results an equal mutual obligation for the two parties, who enter into a juridical engagement towards each other.

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  • They have thus upheld the true contractual nature of concordats and the mutual juridical obligation which results from them.

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  • He maintains the unity and freedom of the soul, and the absolute obligation of the moral law.

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  • Debts do not, as a general rule, carry interest, but such an obligation may arise either by agreement or by mercantile usage or by statute.

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  • The terms of agrarian contracts and leases (except in districts where mezzadria prevails in its essential form), are in many regions disadvantageous to the laborers, who suffer from the obligation to provide guarantees for payment of rent, for repayment of seed corn and for the division of products.

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  • In Italy there is no legal right in the poor to be supported by the parish or commune, nor any obligation on the commune to relieve the poorexcept in the case of forsaken children and the sick poor.

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  • During the religious confusion of the Reformation, the practice of fasting was generally relaxed and it was found necessary to reassert the obligation of keeping Lent and the other periods and days of abstinence by a series of proclamations and statutes.

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  • When a line has once been inspected and passed, it lies with the company to maintain it in accordance with the standard of efficiency it originally possessed, but no express statutory obligation to do so is imposed upon the company, and whether it does so or not, the Board of Trade cannot interfere.

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  • Transubstantiation (1676); The Obligation resulting from the Oath of Supremacy (1688); and Carti's Ormonde, iv.

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  • In this sense of the words, there was no faith delivered to our fathers which we are under any obligation to guard or even explain.

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  • In the history of economics or the biography of Ricardo it is of interest to show that he anticipated later writers, or that his analysis bears the test of modern criticism; but no economist is under any obligation to defend Ricardo's reputation, nor is the fact that a doctrine is included in his works to be taken as a demonstration of its truth.

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  • The conditions which he imposed - the obligation to restore the temple funds, and the dispersion of the population into open villages - were soon disregarded.

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  • A grant or reservation of mines in general terms confers, or reserves, a right to work the mines, subject to the obligation of leaving a reasonable support to the surface as it exists at the time of the grant or reservation.

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  • Thus a lessee is under an implied obligation to treat the premises demised in a tenant-like or " husband-like " manner, and again, where in a lease by deed the word " demise " is used, the lessor probably covenants impliedly for his own title and for the quiet enjoyment of the premises by the lessee.

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  • This obligation makes the landlord responsible for any lawful eviction of the tenant during the term, but not for wrongful eviction unless he is himself the wrongdoer or has expressly made himself responsible for evictions of all kinds.

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  • The obligation is generally imposed upon the tenant to keep the premises in " good condition " or " tenantable repair."

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  • He does not consider the possibility of deriving enjoyment from wealth by helping the poor or encouraging learning (this latter, indeed, he looks on as vanity), and in general he recognizes no obligation on the part of a man to his fellows.

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  • The Wesleys, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author.

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  • In virtue of the enactments of May 1880, of November 1886, of February 1888 and of December 1903, military service had been obligatory on all Mussulmans, Christians having been excluded but under obligation of paying a " military exoneration tax " of T50 for 135 males between the ages of 15 and 75.

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  • All Napoleon's efforts' to support his troops in Malta and Egypt were necessarily made under the hampering obligation to evade the British forces barring the road.

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  • In this narrower sense the word has played a great part in ethical systems, which have spoken of the social or parental "affections" as in some sense a part of moral obligation.

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  • Its obligation rests on the good faith of the parties to the reference, and on the fact that, with the help of a world-wide press, public opinion can always be brought to bear on any state that seeks to evade its moral duty.

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  • On the other hand, the principle of the exemption of all the nobles from taxation is confirmed, as well as their right to refuse military service abroad, the defence of the realm being their sole obligation.

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  • As to the divine origin of Episcopacy and, consequently, of its universal obligation in the Christian Church, Anglican opinion has been, and still is, considerably divided.'

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  • At common law the parish is required to maintain all highways within its bounds; but by special custom the obligation may attach to a particular township or district, and in certain cases the owner of land is bound by the conditions of his holding to keep a highway in repair.

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  • Breach of the obligation is treated as a criminal offence, and is prosecuted by indictment.

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  • This led to an examination of the New Testament foundation of the Christian Church, and in 1725, in a letter to Francis Archibald, minister of Guthrie, Forfarshire, he repudiated the obligation of national covenants.

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  • Subsequently it was discovered that this obligation pressed heavily upon the resources of the native state, and in 1832 the pecuniary equivalent for Anjar, both prospectively and inclusive of the arrears which had accrued to that date, was wholly remitted by the British government.

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  • Bergne reported on the 27th of July 1907 to Sir Edward Grey that " The permanent session had met in special session on the 25th of July, to consider the suggestion of His Britannic Majesty's government to the effect that, if Great Britain could be relieved from the obligation to enforce the penal provisions of the convention, they would be prepared not to give notice on the 1st of September next of their intention to withdraw on the 1st of September 1908 a notice which they would otherwise feel bound to give at the appointed time "; and he added that " At this meeting, a very general desire was expressed that, in these circumstances, arrangements should, if possible, be made which would permit Great Britain to remain a party to the Sugar Convention."

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  • At the same time undoubtedly the new holder of the land, if not already the vassal of the prince, was obliged to become so and to assume an obligation of service with a mounted force when called upon.'

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  • Public duty had become private obligation.

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  • He promised never to declare war or levy troops without the consent of the sejm, undertook to fill all vacancies within a certain time, and released the szlachta from the payment of income-tax, their one remaining fiscal obligation.

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  • Several cessions were made between 1802 and 1824, but the state in the latter year remonstrated in vigorous terms against the dilatory manner in which the National government was discharging its obligation, and the effect of this was that in 1825 a treaty was negotiated at Indian Springs by which nearly all the Lower Creeks agreed to exchange their remaining lands in Georgia for equal territory beyond the Mississippi.

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  • This last obligation was, in virtue of the Capitulations, applicable to Egypt as part of the Ottoman empire.

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  • All that can be meant by such a proposition is that according to the well-understood rules of international law a change of sovereignty by cession ought not to affect private property, but no municipal tribunal has authority to enforce such an obligation.

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  • But one result has been that very differing views of the ground of the obligation have been held.

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  • Yet, while noting this reservation of judgment, it must also be remarked that all three felt themselves under some peculiar obligation to the classics.

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  • For, if the ultimate ground, of obligation lay in a refined sensitiveness to differences between right and wrong, what should be said to a man who might affirm that, just as he had no ear for music, he was insensitive to ethical differences commonly recognized ?

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  • The sentiment of obligation Spencer regards as essentially transitory; when a man reaches a condition of perfect adjustment, he will always do what is right without any sense of being obliged to it.

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  • There is no mention, for example, of Hobbes throughout Spinoza's political writing, and only one casual reference to him in a letter, although the obligation of the Dutch to the English thinker lies on the surface.

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  • In English law obligation has only the latter sense.

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  • In English law obligation is used in at least four senses - (1) any duty imposed by law; (2) the special duty created by a vinculum juris; (3) not the duty, but the evidence of the duty - that is to say, an instrument under seal, otherwise called a bond; (4) the operative part of a bond.

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  • A perfect obligation may become imperfect by lapse of time or other means, and, conversely, an imperfect obligation may under certain circumstances become perfect.

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  • At one period there was some doubt among English lawyers whether a moral obligation could be regarded as sufficient consideration for a contract; it has now, however, been long decided that it cannot be so regarded.

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  • He desired that it should be applied to a fund for insurance and old age pensions for workmen and old people, to the lightening of the municipal taxes by state contributions to the schools and workhouses, to the abolition of the land taxes and of the obligation of keeping a horse and man for military service, and, lastly, to the improvement of the shipping trade; but the Riksdag decided to devote it to other objects, such as the payment of the deficit in the budget, the building of railways and augmentation of their material, as well as to improvements in the defences of the country.

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  • George seemed to think his obligation sufficiently discharged by appointing Butler in 1738 to the bishopric of Bristol, the poorest see in the kingdom.

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  • And Bulgaria, by evading at the last moment an obligation that was not merely part of a military scheme but was included in the basic political treaty of Feb.

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  • Yet, notwithstanding this parliamentary triumph, there were not a few of his own colleagues and supporters who condemned the spirit in which the foreign relations of the Crown were carried on; and in that same year the queen addressed a minute to the prime minister in which she recorded her dissatisfaction at the manner in which Lord Palmerston evaded the obligation to submit his measures for the royal sanction as failing in sincerity to the Crown.

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  • In quarter sessions boroughs, however, where the council have the duty of appointing a public analyst, they are under an obligation to put the acts in force from time to time, as occasion may arise.

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  • The domestic and social affections, the kindly care of the young and the old, some acknowledgment of marital and parental obligation, the duty of mutual defence in the tribe, the authority of the elders, and general respect to traditional custom as the regulator of life and duty, are more or less well marked in every savage tribe which is not disorganized and falling to pieces.

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  • This was reduced to $21,675,000 by 1869, and in 1903 was wholly extinguished, every obligation having been fully discharged.

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  • It is true that the loss to his income which this would have caused was obviated by a patent from the crown in April 1675, allowing him as Lucasian professor to retain his fellowship without the obligation of taking holy orders.

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  • If the contract was broken, they became prisoners and might be fettered or made to work as slaves until the obligation was satisfied.

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  • The Council of Trent in 1551 repudiated the worst corruptions and repelled as slanders certain charges which were made against the medieval system; but it retained the obligation of annual confession, and laid it down that the form of the sacrament consisted in the priest's words of absolution.

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  • The king replied by harrying him on charges of having failed in his feudal obligation to provide well-equipped knights for a Welsh expedition, and imposed ruinous fines on him.

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  • As to the barons, the king took the important constitutional step of conceding that he would not ask them to serve abroad as a feudal obligation, but would pay them for their services, if they would oblige him by joining his banner.

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  • So that from any one or more of these, without all of them together, or from all of them together without attending to their comparative obligation, it is not possible to exhibit any distinct prospect of the English ecclesiastical constitution.'

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  • To the atheist alone Locke refuses full toleration, on the ground that social obligation can have no hold over him, for " the taking away of God dissolves all."

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  • Holy Orders consecrates a whole person to God, and brings with it an obligation to live the counsels in a particularly priestly way.

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  • Innocent's letters, however, not only reveal that superior wisdom which can take into account practical needs and relax severity of principle at the right moment, as well as that spirit of tolerance and equity which is opposed to the excess of zeal and intellectual narrowness of subordinates, but they also prove that, in the internal government of the Church, he was bent on gathering into his hands all the motive threads, and that he stretched the absolutist tradition to its furthest limits, intervening in the most trifling acts in the lives of the clergy, and regarding it as an obligation of his office to act and think for all.

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  • It may be noticed, too, that he still accepts the "social compact " as the natural mode of constituting government, and regards the obligations of subjects to civil obedience as normally dependent on a tacit contract; though he is careful to state that consent is not absolutely necessary to the just establishment of beneficent government, nor the source of irrevocable obligation to a pernicious one.

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  • When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and Helene, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an entertaining supposition.

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  • We'll discuss your needs and requirements with no pushy sales pitch and no obligation to you.

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  • The obligation to make payments must terminate with the payer's death.

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  • The individual receiving alimony payments must have been aware of his or her obligation to at least contribute to his or her financial support.

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  • The company does not require an obligation by selecting these options.

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  • They may make certain concessions or privileges once given without any corresponding obligation; they constitute for a given country a special ecclesiastical law; and it is thus that writers have sometimes spoken of concordats as privileges.

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  • The Post Office reserved the right to compete either directly or by granting other licences, and it was under no obligation to grant wayleaves.

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  • If by the " old Political Economy " we mean the methods and conclusions of certain great writers, who stood head and shoulders above their contemporaries and determined the general character of economic science, we are still under no obligation to define the attitude of the present generation with regard to them.

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  • From this fact arises the ground of political obligation, for the institutions of political or civic life are the concrete embodiment of moral ideas in terms of our day and generation.

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  • The Principles of Political Obligation was afterwards published in separate form.

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  • I have an obligation, Rhyn.

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  • Under the revised code (1905) a wife may hold property which she had acquired before marriage free from any obligation of her husband, but in general she is not permitted to make contracts affecting either her personal or real estate without the written consent of her husband.

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  • As archbishop of Toledo he exerted himself to protect the clergy from the obligation to pay the excises or octroi duties known as "the millions" and thereby helped to perpetuate the financial embarrassments of the government.

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  • Their only obligation to the Turkish government is to furnish a contingent in time of war; the only law they recognize is either traditional custom(adet) or the unwritten Kanun-i Leks Dukajinit, a civil and criminal code, so called from its author, Leka Dukajini, who is supposed to have lived in the 13th or 14th century.

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  • However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor.

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