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How to use the word OBLigation in a Sentence?

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Create a sense of obligation. When you want to persuade someone to do something, one of the best ways you can accomplish this task is to make that person feel obligated to you.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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11 months ago

Throughout the FTC’s history we have had to adapt our enforcement to changing technology, our obligation is to do what we’ve always done, which is to apply the tools we have to these changing technologies … [and] not be scared off by this idea that this is a new, revolutionary technology.

The FTC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

America’s aviation safety net is strong, our goal, our obligation, is to sew those threads even tighter.

Billy Nolen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As Secretary of State, I have an obligation to protect the personal information of Florida’s citizens, which the Electronic Registration Information Center agreement requires us to share, florida has tried to back reforms to increase protections, but these protections were refused. Therefore, we have lost confidence in Electronic Registration Information Center.

Cord Byrd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that’s our obligation now.

Kadir Kemal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’re a Black artist in America, by default you’re an activist. I have an obligation to make sure if they can’t find images that portray them as human beings, I will make sure to do it myself, i write my books so when Black children pick them up they don’t want to put it down because they see themselves. It’s a mirror. They see it and think ‘This is who I am, I’m someone with astronomical goals. I love myself. I love my skin. I love my hair. I love my family. I love my neighborhood.’.

Derrick Barnes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congress has the obligation to prevent default, and speaker McCarthy knows that.

Republican House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have an obligation of using all the tools properly to keep citizens safe.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is Jim Crow in the 21st century, it must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Nobody has declared it dead, but no obligation is being pursued, and … every limit that existed in the JCPOA has been violated several times.

Rafael Grossi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The web of lies George Santos used to defraud George Santos voters is a threat to our free and fair elections, and we have an obligation to ensure nothing like this ever happens again, his entire candidacy for Congress was predicated on a campaign of disinformation designed to deceive the voters. George Santos lied about George Santos entire biography and resume, including religion, family history, education, and professional experience. I am proud to join my fellow New York Congressman Ritchie Torres to introduce this critical piece of legislation to safeguard the democratic process.

Dan Goldman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're not going to leave any stone unturned. And once we finalize our plans, we're going to announce it, we're not, it's not going to be any surprise is once we finalize how we're going to continue to live up to our legal and moral obligation, we're going to announce.

Mayor Adams '

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century, it must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In times of crisis and tragedy, it is especially important that public companies and executives provide full, fair, and truthful disclosures to the markets, the Boeing Company and Boeing Company former CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, failed in this most basic obligation. They misled investors by providing assurances about the safety of the 737 MAX, despite knowing about serious safety concerns.

The SEC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I did not like the idea that, in order to maintain my personal and scientific integrity, and in order to fulfill my obligation to the country, as a public health official and as a scientist, I had to publicly disagree with several of the things that [former President Donald Trump], who they follow to the last word, was saying.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is the moral duty of all to never forget : an obligation that has taken on heightened urgency as atrocities are perpetrated around the globe, including by Russia against Ukraine.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When hostilities end in the future, all these arrivals can make the decision to return to their homeland. Whoever wishes to remain in Russia, the Russian government takes such an obligation -- they will receive a full range of social services and are protected.

Dmitry Vaschenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think all of us have that obligation and I am able to do it now, so it gives me great pride to help my country.

Mehmet Oz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When the country has been through something as grave as this was, everyone who has information has an obligation to step forward. So I would hope that he will do that.

Liz Cheney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It just reveals a widespread lack of taking seriously the obligation to preserve records, to ensure accountability, to ensure accountability to Secret Service agents partners in the legislative branch and to the American people.

Heather Sawyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While we need to support all types of diversity in our party, when someone is acting as a de facto agent of the Republican caucus and single-handily stopping good policy that would help all Americans, we have a moral obligation to do something, joe Manchin is doing what Mitch McConnell cannot do for himself.

Colin Strother

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A company like Intel — which made $20 billion last year, and their CEO made $180 million — [they’re] going to get $3 (billion) to $4 billion to build something, but we don’t specify exactly what it is, there’s no obligation for them to build the technology we need, but they get the money and a tax credit anyway.

Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When hostilities end in the future, all these arrivals can make the decision to return to their homeland. Whoever wishes to remain in The Russians, the Russian government takes such an obligation -- they will receive a full range of social services and are protected.

Dmitry Vaschenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While I appreciate that the Department of Education has finally fulfilled its obligation to investigate whether states have implemented policies, laws, or regulations to stop the heinous practice of ‘passing the trash,’ I am deeply concerned with these findings, any educator who engaged in sexual misconduct with a child should be barred from ever teaching in a classroom again, yet too many states do not have policies to ensure that is the case. Releasing this report is only the first step—the department must hold states accountable and use the tools at its disposal to enforce the law.

Pat Toomey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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