| 1. | " It has
been the habit of the greater number of moral philosophers in this
century to focus on positive concepts such as "good,"
"right," "duty," "obligation,"
"virtue," and so on. For the most..."
| Source: | Allen, Jonathan. "Decency and the Struggle for Recognition" Social Theory and Practice 24.3 Sept. 22 1998: 449-450
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| 2. | "... Xunzi as a "sense of duty" or, more
precisely, the "unfilled, open capacity to form the concept of an
obligation as a moral one rather than just a cause-effect problem of
what I must do if I am to get..."
| Source: | Behuniak, James,Nivison, David S. "Nivison and the "Problem" in Xunzi's Ethics" Philosophy East and West 50.1 Jan. 1 2000: 97
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| 3. | " Finally, obligation motives include moral and
religious duty, contributing to the local community, repaying debt, and
a political duty to bring about change. [57]
These motivations rarely occur in isolation."
| Source: | Anheier, Helmut K.,Salamon, Lester M. "Volunteering in cross-national perspective: initial comparisons" Law and Contemporary Problems 62.4 Sept. 22 1999: 43
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| 4. | " Traditionally, men may have had to marry a woman
they had impregnated as a matter of moral obligation (or at the prodding
of a shotgun), if not as a matter of legal duty."
| Source: | HIRCZY DE MINO, WOLFGANG P. "From Bastardy to Equality: The Rights of Nonmartial Children and their Fathers in Comparative Perspective" Journal of Comparative Family Studies 31.2 Mar. 22 2000: 231
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| 5. | " Like Shanghai Noon's
Chon, his characters hail from decidedly humble origins, and he usually
joins the fight not for personal gain but out of sense of moral
obligation and duty."
| Source: | Karnick, S.T. "Chan's Noodle Western" Insight on the News 16.24 June 26 2000: 27
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| 6. | "... havoc with the
Medicare program in the next few decades, forcing a fresh appraisal of
one of the oldest of moral obligations, that of the duty of the young to
the old."
| Source: | Callahan, Daniel. "The Social Sciences and the Task of Bioethics" Daedalus 128.4 Sept. 22 1999: 275
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| 7. | " In order for us to be justified in treating
others harshly (or, as is the case here, treating them more harshly) a
necessary condition(75) is that they have violated some duty or
obligation--be it legal or moral."
| Source: | BAGARIC, MIRKO. "Double Punishment and Punishing Character: The Unfairness of Prior Convictions" Criminal Justice Ethics 19.1 Jan. 1 2000: 10
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| 8. | "... precious water."(95) Such
attempted accommodation, the court ruled, was a violation of the
Secretary's "moral obligations of the highest responsibility
and trust" to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe,(96) and in order to
fulfill this fiduciary duty,..."
| Source: | Goodman, Ed. "Protecting habitat for off-reservation tribal hunting and fishing rights: tribal comanagement as a reserved right" Environmental Law 30.2 Mar. 22 2000: 279
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| 9. | "
I. PRACTICAL PIETY AND MORAL REFORM
In common with other Anglican clergymen, Wesley felt a compulsion,
obligation, and duty to practice physic."
| Source: | Madden, Deborah. "Medicine and moral reform: the place of practical piety in John Wesley's art of physic" Church History 73.4 Dec. 1 2004: 741-759
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| 10. | "... why we suppose necessity and power to lie in the objects we
consider, not in our mind, that considers them...."(13) As a
result, moreover, the concept of necessary obligation or absolute moral
law, cognizable by reason, all but vanishes."
| Source: | MILNES, TIM. "Seeing in the Dark: Hazlitt's Immanent Idealism" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 3
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| 11. | "... human being." And he himself observes,
about this use of the concept of obligation to explain the concept of
rights, "Even though the language of moral rights is.. .useful, it
is not essential."
| Source: | Wolterstorff, Nicholas. "SACRED AND INVIOLABLE" Review of Politics 62.2 Mar. 22 2000: 378
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| 12. | "... - service is duty, obligation
and self-sacrifice - according to my grandfather and also the Kabbalah,
service is much closer to love than it is to duty, closer to generosity
than it is to obligation."
| Source: | Joerger, Teresa. "Doctor's own illness helps heal suffering" Washington Times July 3 2000: 2
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| 13. | " Examples include
hints of a governmental duty to protect lawful speakers against hostile
audiences,(137) the obligation to subsidize prisoners' right to
appeal,(138) and the duty to provide counsel to..."
| Source: | Shaffer, Derek. "Answering Justice Thomas in Saenz: granting the Privileges or Immunities Clause full citizenship within the Fourteenth Amendment" Stanford Law Review 52.3 Feb. 1 2000: 709-1459
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| 14. | " The basic rights include
non-discrimination, which is incorporated in the national treatment and
most-favored-nation status obligations discussed more fully below.(25)
The basic obligations include the duty to refrain from imposing
quantitative restrictions on trade, the duty to refrain from raising
tariffs..."
| Source: | Petsonk, Annie. "The Kyoto protocol and the WTO: integrating greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading into the global marketplace" Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 10.1 Sept. 22 1999: 185
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| 15. | "... be immune from a negligence
claim; and (2) liability will be imposed where there is breach of: (a) a
specific contractual obligation; (b) a fiduciary or other special
relationship or duty; or, (c) an independent tortious duty (such as one
imposed by statute or intentional acts such as..."
| Source: | Pacini, Carl,Sinason, David. "Auditor liability for electronic commerce transaction assurance: the CPA/CA Webtrust" American Business Law Journal 36.3 Mar. 22 1999: 479-480
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| 16. | " For example, in
measuring the obligation component, the participants were asked about
their obligation or duty to provide financial care (e.g., "I feel
[that] I have an obligation to take..."
| Source: | KHAZANOVICH, GALINA,SCHLENKER, BARRY R. "Psychological Involvement in Parenthood Among Ukrainians" Journal of Social Psychology 140.2 Apr. 1 2000: 188
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| 17. | "... "To
the extent an employer grants light duty for other temporary
disabilities, the employer has the same obligation to grant light duty
for pregnancy matters," says Wimberly."
| Source: | Lynn, Jacquelyn. "Labor Issues" Entrepreneur 27.11 Nov. 1 1999: 149
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| 18. | "
A community organizer might find herself caught between her duty to
support neighborhood residents' right to self-determination and her
obligation to challenge residents' racist efforts to drive out
low-income neighbors of color under the guise of urban renewal."
| Source: | Reamer, Frederic G. "The Social Work Ethics Audit: A Risk-Management Strategy" Social Work 45.4 July 1 2000: 355
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| 19. | " When politicians see a lot of people turning out to
vote, they know they should pay attention to issues important to people
who live around here."
The civic duty script appeals to a sense of obligation."
| Source: | GERBER, ALAN S.,GREEN, DONALD P. "The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 653
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| 20. | " He said he made the decision to go to Vietnam out of
a "sense of duty, a sense of obligation and a sense of
fairness" to the others who were drafted."
| Source: | . "Democratic Sleepers" Campaigns & Elections 21.6 July 1 2000: 36
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| 21. | "
The Dicomes court also noted, and endorsed, the four categories for
which many states would find a discharge to have been wrongful because
it violated public policy: (1) refusal to commit an illegal act, (2)
performance of a public duty or obligation, (3)..."
| Source: | Ballam, Deborah A. "Employment-at-will: the impending death of a doctrine" American Business Law Journal 37.4 June 22 2000: 653
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| 22. | " The morality of duty corresponds with
contextual theory that emphasized the obligations children have towards
their parents."
| Source: | LEICHTENTRITT, RONIT D.,RETTIG, KATHRYN D. "Elderly Israelis and Their Family Members Meanings towards Euthanasia" Families, Systems & Health 18.1 Mar. 22 2000: 61
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| 23. | "... Ryan" inhabits a different world, where
men accept their obligations with good humor and courage as they do
their duty to protect home and country in a nasty war in an unfamiliar
landscape."
| Source: | Fields, Suzanne. "The envelope, please" Washington Times Feb. 15 1999: 21
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| 24. | "... building.
"It is the duty of the General Assembly to remind the country
it has certain legal principles and obligations to abide by," said
Mr. Hassouna."
| Source: | Pisik, Betsy. "U.N. to discuss Israeli settlements" Washington Times Feb. 4 1999: 13
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| 25. | "
But Mr. Curran contends the state has no obligation to pay any
fee or costs until Mr. Angelos' firm fulfills its duty to maximize
the..."
| Source: | Hyslop, Margie. "Curran appeals delay of Angelos case" Washington Times Dec. 31 1999: 3
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