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How to use the word OBLigation in a Sentence? Page #7

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In addition, if localities are not taking action to desegregate schools, Elizabeth believes the federal government has a constitutional obligation to step in to deliver on the promise of Brown v. Board, including, if necessary, busing, she has plainly done her homework.

Kristen Orthman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Despite its mandatory obligation, the Treasury Department failed to comply with the law and denied the Committee's request.

House Ways and Means Committee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....

Kitty Block

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We know theres been a ton of pioneers in our sport who have allowed me to sit at this chair and we dont take that lightly, but we also know the obligation that comes with that - that we have to keep pushing boundaries and we have to keep fighting for women in sports, womens equality. All of these aspects that we truly believe in.

Ashlyn Harris

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As a Roman Catholic Bishop, however, my obligation before God is to lead the faithful entrusted to my care and to teach the faith, clearly and compassionately, even on very difficult and sensitive issues.

Thomas Tobin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Aspen Skiing now means that if a company ever sells any product to any competitor, it then could have a perpetual antitrust obligation to sell every product to every competitor.

Christine Wilson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have one remaining path to ensure justice is served, it is our legal and moral obligation to hold those who have committed crimes accountable.

Cory Booker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is very important to continue... because it is the only safe abortion alternative for some of the most vulnerable people, as a physician, I have the obligation to provide medical care to people in need.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not her obligation to do all that.

Salah Ahmed

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is no obligation on Huwaei's part to cooperate with the government in the way in which the Americans are indicating, there is no mandate in (China's national intelligence) law that we have to had over customer data or intelligence that we do not wish to hand over or we think should be sensitive.

Tim Watkins

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think it is the most basic and fundamental obligation of government, to protect its citizens, and after what we saw in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life and after what we saw in New Zealand, we looked at that $500,000 and said, This is insufficient.

Jesse Gabriel

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Time and again the Trump administration puts corporations and polluters' interests ahead of public health and the environment, since the EPA has failed to hold GE accountable for fulfilling its obligation to restore the river, New York State will take any action necessary to protect our waterways.

Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For the same reason we're worried about foreign influence in elections, I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal, i'm not suggesting those rules were violated but I think it's important to look at. ... I think it's my obligation.

William Barr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You are not under any obligation to defend things that are morally unjust, if you truly believe that they're morally unjust and you have an opportunity to take a stand, I think it's an imperative to do so.

Professor Hadar Aviram

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The first and highest obligation of our government is to protect its citizens and this administration will carry out that duty.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

With this shameful policy, the administration is endangering lives, abandoning its obligation to bring forward smart solutions for our broken immigration system, and imposing on another country the task of solving our immigration challenges.

Veronica Escobar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These officials are public servants. What they say — in State Department entirety — is inherently of public interest. It's inappropriate and irresponsible not to observe that obligation.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Im the only administration, ours is, that is the first to ever fund the pension system, in its entirety, weve put more money into the pension in the last three years, in the last two budgets, than the previous governor [Democrat Steve Beshear] did in eight years. Were the only ones to actually be bringing attention to the obligation we have to those who are responsible, to our students.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We have long had plans in place in the event that a New Zealand citizen supporting ISIS in Syria were to return, mr Taylor only holds New Zealand citizenship and the government has an obligation not to make people stateless.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It was the taxable bond funds group's seventh straight weekly net inflow, ultra-short obligation funds (USO) drove the overall positive net flows for the group as they took in $1.47 billion. This is the continuation of a long-term trend as USO funds have had net inflows in 50 of the last 51 weeks for a total intake of over $69 billion.

Pat Keon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is not witness-tampering. It's witness-testing, we have an obligation in the Congress to test the truthfulness of people who come before us.

Matt Gaetz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a sea-to-shining-sea moment, a sea-to-shining sea promise, a sea-to-shining-sea obligation.

Cory Gardner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In doing nothing to remedy these and other deficiencies, EPA has again failed to meet its statutory obligation to ensure that annual RVOs (renewable volume obligations) are met each year.

Energy CEO Emily Skor

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's an obligation of us as being humans, us as being neighbors, us as being Muslims to not only make sure that we remain safe but we want to make sure that our neighbors, they also remain safe and protected.

Sabeel Ahmed

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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