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How to use the word OBLigation in a Sentence? Page #10

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There is nothing comparable to the kind of pressure and obligation that this kind of job puts on your shoulders, having been there before, gives him the confidence to know how to do it and how to do it right.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I am my son's voice and it will be heard, as Gabe's mother, it is my obligation to make sure that this will never happen again.

Cornelia Reynolds

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I do think that (activism) is transforming to another stage, and that stage is for people to understand that this is their democracy and they should take ownership over it, they have a right and an obligation to be vigilant and stay on top of things.

Dwight Evans

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have an obligation to make sure we have the best situation for moms and babies, as much as this decision hurts your heart, it would be horrible if something happened to them.

Kimber Wraalstad

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued an ultimatum to Russia on Tuesday: Side with the U.S. and likeminded countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad. As he embarked on a trip to Moscow following urgent meetings in Italy with top diplomats, Tillerson said it was unclear whether Russia had failed to take seriously its obligation to rid Syria of chemical weapons, or had merely been incompetent. But he said the distinction ‘doesn't much matter to the dead.’ ‘We cannot let this happen again,’ the secretary of state said.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That will part of the discussions when I visit Moscow next week is to call upon Foreign Minister Lavrov and the Russian government to fulfill the obligation it made to the international community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons, and why Russia has not been able to achieve that is unclear to me. I don't draw conclusions of complicity at all, but clearly they've been incompetent and perhaps they've just simply been out-maneuvered by the Syrians.

Rex Tillerson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Yes, that will part of the discussions when I visit Moscow next week is to call upon Foreign Minister( Sergey) Lavrov and the Russian government to fulfill the obligation it made to the international community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This business is always hard and politics is always hard, but I'm used to that, i don't really listen to what anyone says. I was very clear and transparent with all of you, and the statement still stands -- which is: I had a duty and obligation to go tell the President of the United States.

Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Senators have a constitutional obligation to advice (sic) and consent on a nominee to fill this Supreme Court vacancy and, simply put, we have a responsibility to do our jobs as elected officials, i will vote to confirm him to be the ninth justice on the Supreme Court.

Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I hear it everywhere I go: 'Drug overdose deaths, the vast majority of them related to prescription opioids or heroin, are single-handedly destroying families and communities across Missouri and the country,' and I refuse to just stand by and watch, we have an obligation to everyone devastated by this epidemic to find answers.

Claire McCaskill

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When I said ‘The poor will always be with us,’ it was actually in the context of supporting the obligation we have to always take care of people, but we cannot completely craft a larger, affordable healthcare policy around a comparatively small segment of the population who will get care no matter what.

Roger Marshall

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Obamacare has been a huge issue in four straight elections -- 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, the American people have given us an opportunity to govern. We're no longer just floating ideas ... we have an obligation now to the American people to deliver a replacement for Obamacare that is better than the status quo.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The American people have given us an opportunity to govern. We're no longer just floating ideas ... we have an obligation now to the American people to deliver a replacement for Obamacare that is better than the status quo.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We get that they have a job to do, it's a tough job to keep an HBCU open. But there is still an obligation to the values that have sustained us for 150 years.

Howard University

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think we have an obligation to the American people to do our job regardless of who is related to who at a company, and I have never seen Senator Manchin intervene himself in any of these cases involving this company. I’ve never seen that happen. I know him very well.

Amy Klobuchar

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Instead of complying with the terms of the commercial agreement that the two companies negotiated and agreed to in 2015, Walmart is attempting to avoid its obligation to provide a signature option for their customers when paying with a Visa debit card.

Visa Inc

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I can say this invitation was sent to the head of the Turkish foreign ministry, it is Russia's obligation as chair of this organization.

Maria Zakharova

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All of us have an obligation to try to explain ... what the hedge fund industry and the private equity industry does that is useful, we shouldn’t be upset about what we do. We should be proud.

David Rubenstein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Chinese government has consistently demanded that Chinese companies investing abroad respect the laws and rules of the host nation, and fulfil their responsibility and obligation to society, including paying attention to protecting the environment, china is willing to work hard with Myanmar to properly implement these mutually beneficial cooperation projects, to promote local socio-economic development, to better benefit both countries and their peoples.

Lu Kang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Never Trump, Never Trump, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination, as Never Trump, Never Trump now has the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's almost as though it's their obligation to send Flint a get-well card, the Republican Congress turns a blind eye and fails to act. We are better than this.

Dan Kildee

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I am prepared to take executive action to help reduce expenditures, however, the legislature has a constitutional obligation to balance the budget and we are hopeful they will work with us on one of the three options. . .

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My first obligation is to protect my students, to make sure that they are safe and secure, i was pleading with the police that they release them because with students being arrested it may just escalate this whole situation in the university which is not what we want.

Vice Chancellor Sizwe Mabizela

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have an obligation to all our employees, and to the communities in which they work and live, to be the best corporate citizen we can be, we believe this approach best supports that objective.

Arnold Donald

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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