moral obligation

How To Use moral obligation In A Sentence

• We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
• What was once given as a gesture of goodwill has become a moral obligation.
• The freedom to act and a stern moral obligation to act in certain ways were seen as two sides of the same coin. Times, Sunday Times
• Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being. Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
• I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
• We have a moral obligation to lead with integrity, ' said City Councilwoman Shelley Midura, who is among those who pushed for the creation of the office of inspector general.
• There is a moral obligation on those who will the ends to provide the means. Times, Sunday Times
• He came to the negotiations over the agreement with a pre-existing moral obligation to arrive at terms.
• At a basic level, it is our moral obligation to reduce, reuse and recycle our waste.
• It matters not that the law still applies, the moral obligation to consent has gone. Times, Sunday Times