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Example sentences for: obligation

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Pfizer is challenging the breakup fee in court, arguing that the companies' boards neglected their obligation to pursue the best interests of the shareholders by undermining attempts at a hostile takeover.
So-called public intellectuals like West, bell hooks, and, yes, Henry Louis Gates Jr. himself, seem to me both dishonest and selfish--they're in it for the money and the power as much as out of any sense of obligation or responsibility to the black community.
We are free of obligations, including the obligation to dress like everyone else.
Sex isn't the issue, I think; the consumer culture has trivialized adult experiences of responsibility, flattened out intimacy so that it appears a zone in which people, women as well as men, are pulled between self development and obligation to others: Ozzie and Harriet vs.
Alawyer may not knowingly lie, but he or she is under no obligation to know the truth or to draw logical inferences from what he or she does know.