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How to use the word OBLigation in a Sentence? Page #8

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Although this is a test administered by a private entity, and not M-DCPS, we feel a moral obligation to intervene.

– Kamilah Campbell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

By choosing not to thoroughly investigate allegations, the Catholic Church has failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois, the failure to investigate also means that the Catholic Church has never made an effort to determine whether the conduct of the accused priests was ignored or covered up by superiors.

– Lisa Madigan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can do better as a nation, this is a humanitarian crisis and we have a moral obligation to ensure these vulnerable families can safely seek asylum, which is legal under immigration and international law at our borders.

– Joaquin Castro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[ Goading ] is not a license to respond in kind, it's never an obligation that you provide a counter argument or that you have to share what you think.

– Daniel Post Senning

Found on CNN
5 years ago

But I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.

– Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To me, it's a recognition that when a country has men and women at war who are dying -- like we do have people dying, still, in Afghanistan -- and not recognize that by going and by looking and asking questions and being part of that personally, rather than just getting reports in the morning or in the afternoon, that's a misstep, but I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.

– Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This country is now your country. ... We share one American heart and one American destiny, you now share the obligation to teach our values to others.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I reminded them this is what I do. I don't take shortcuts, i've taken some tough votes in the Senate. I've taken some tough votes that Democrats haven't liked in the Senate. I've taken some votes that Republicans haven't liked, but at the end of Election Day, you have an obligation to do the right thing as you see it, and I think that's what's missing maybe a little bit in politics today.

– Heidi Heitkamp

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The internet service providers have every right to sue California, just like California has every right — indeed an obligation — to protect our residents' access to an open internet.

– Scott Wiener

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The first obligation is generic. It imposes a duty to pursue the national interest over any private interest. That applies equally to all government employees.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Most people are familiar with the first clause of our oath, the requirement to 'support and defend the Constitution.' But some overlook the final clause: to 'well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office,' the first obligation is generic. It imposes a duty to pursue the national interest over any private interest. That applies equally to all government employees.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We aren't naïve, but we have an obligation to be honest with our countrymen and tell them, as those who came before us have done in their time, what should be done. ... What we must do.

– Heather Wilson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If there is, in fact, displeasure in his service, then he has an obligation, from my perspective, to make a change.

– Alberto Gonzales

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, but Paul Manafort was, and no one's above the law. So it was our obligation to look through all the evidence.

– Paula Duncan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We feel we have an obligation to be a good neighbor, around the world, too many young people are finding that, through no fault of their own, there are barriers to entry into the workplace. We believe this needs to change.

– David Fairhurst

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I thought that the public, America, needed to know how close this was, and that the evidence was overwhelming, i did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, but Paul Manafort was, and no one's above the law. So it was our obligation to look through all the evidence.

– Paula Duncan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

American taxpayers should not be subsidizing the abuse and exploitation of immigrants in private detention centers. The Department of Homeland Security has a legal and moral obligation to take immediate action to ensure that private detention centers follow the law and treat all people in their custody with dignity and respect.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
5 years ago

One of the rationales for the death penalty in Catholic Church teachings historically was to protect society. Obviously, the state still has that obligation, that is not being taken away here, but they can do that in other ways.

– The Pope

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I completely understand why under ordinary circumstances prosecutors would not approve of what I did, but I believe they would at least understand that I had an obligation to my client to correct the record on something harmful to Michael Cohen.

– Lanny Davis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The federal government has a solemn obligation to ensure a fair and accurate count of all people in this country, by demanding the citizenship status of each resident, the President Donald Trump administration is breaking with decades of policy and potentially causing a major undercount that would threaten billions in federal funds and New York's fair representation in Congress and the Electoral College.

– Barbara Underwood

Found on CNN
5 years ago

House Republicans was a part of the mess that we uncovered over at DOJ, house Republicans has an obligation to come and testify. If House Republicans wants to come plead the Fifth that's House Republicans choice, but a subpoena to testify before Congress is not optional, it's mandatory. We will do what we need to do to protect this branch of government.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I find it somewhat troubling that even before the President named Judge Kavanaugh that there were those who were roundly condemning the nominee without knowing who the nominee is, i think that there is a process -- that process needs to be fair, it needs to be open. We all, every member of the United States Senate has an equal obligation to thoroughly vet this nominee. And we will come down on one side or the other but in due deference to the nominee and in due deference to the president's prerogative to name a nominee. We have an obligation to thoroughly work through this advice and consent process.

– Lisa Murkowski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Any allegation of sexual abuse against minors -- or complicity regarding such abuse -- is very serious. That damage can not be undone, for any teacher, protecting kids is the absolute first priority -- and I say that as a former kindergarten teacher. Ohio State has an obligation to get to the bottom of this with a thorough and fair investigation. Jim Jordan has an obligation to cooperate fully with that investigation.

– Mark Meadows.Janet Garrett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Any allegation of sexual abuse against minors -- or complicity regarding such abuse -- is very serious. That damage can not be undone, for any teacher, protecting kids is the absolute first priority -- and I say that as a former kindergarten teacher. Ohio State has an obligation to get to the bottom of this with a thorough and fair investigation. Congressman Jordan has an obligation to cooperate fully with that investigation.

– Mark Meadows.Janet Garrett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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