obligation

By spreading out the payments over many years, he could keep his tax obligations low.

Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.

It is the obligation of citizens and journalists as well as governments.

“It is our Islamic obligation to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State and give it our Islamic fealty,” he said.

But he has always said we have an obligation to defend people in the region.

Krauss says that ending religion is a matter of obligation, but I think our obligations are much different.

It has created neither the sense of obligation nor the determination of what is right or wrong in conduct.

The obligation was mutual, that the host should give hospitality, and that the guest should not abuse it.

For love is held by a certainty of obligation, which because men are mischievous, is broken upon any occasion of their own profit.

I never had any, and now there is nothing I could do which would quite wipe out the obligation I feel I am under to you, he said.

Farewell, you have laid me under a load of obligation—not that I feel it a load.