obligation
Example Sentences
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This made her feel a "moral obligation to report" him, but said this was her experience and it was OK that most other survivors "don't want to report or ever talk" about their experience.
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It also stressed that Israel had an obligation under international humanitarian law to ensure that Gaza's population was adequately supplied.
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In August, a new freedom of speech law came into force, strengthening the legal obligations on universities to uphold freedom of speech.
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The Jewish faith has a moral obligation of tzedakah, loosely defined as charity but literally translated as righteousness.
Some business development companies boost returns—and risks—by making concentrated bets on high-yielding debt or by investing in complex financial structures, such as collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs.
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