Sentences with phrase «sense of obligation»

It also fuels my deep sense of obligation to find better ways to prevent and treat diseases and alleviate patient suffering.

I would like to exploit my potential and sense of obligation for the benefit of the organization.

But in that itself there is an inherent sense of obligation.

They carry the same promises and the same dreadful sense of obligation, even as the crowds have left town — perhaps for another art fair.

But agape is also forgiving love in emulation of God and a universal sense of obligation which transcends particular obligations.

The presidential debates are like some gross vegetable your great - aunt made on Thanksgiving: You don't really want to consume them, but you ended up doing it anyway out of a weird sense of obligation.

Self - motivated retail store leader with more than ten years of active experience — Possess the required determination to improve performance with utmost sense of obligation and carefulness.

The Puritans felt a keen sense of obligation to these members of their community unable to care for themselves, but this obligation did not extend beyond the boundaries of the town and was often grudging.

The pervading characteristic of the First Letter of Peter is its tremendous sense of the obligation which the work of Christ has laid upon the Christian.

All through the letter there runs this constant sense of the obligation and the responsibility which the mercy and the grace and the love of God in Jesus Christ have laid upon the Christian.

In its original context, Locke's thought was inseparable from his theology and from his stern Calvinist sense of obligation.

If we do, the awareness aroused in us of being each a responsible element in a rebounding course of Evolution must, at the same time as it gives rise to a desire and reason for action, inspire us with a fundamental sense of obligation and a precise system of moral tendencies.

It is necessary, however, if the Church's peculiar sense of obligation is to be illuminated, to define the Being to whom it is answerable as God - in - Christ and Chtht - in - God.

In the present essay, I shall try to defend Whitehead on this charge by showing both that he has a viable concept of personal identity and that it can sustain a meaningful sense of obligation and guilt.

His attacking talent is paired with tenacity as well as an overriding sense of obligation to his teammates.

I want you to take a minute and do a free - form visualization of all the things that you currently feel pressured — by friends, family, society, or even your own twisted sense of obligation — to give a fuck about.

He tells one reporter (Elizabeth Moss) of the heavy sense of obligation he feels to spend public money so his gallery can compete against private collectors.

As Stephen Knack, now a senior economist at the World Bank, explained in a 1992 essay, «Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout,» even people with a weak personal sense of obligation have a greater likelihood of voting in a place that is populated with duty - bound compatriots.

The teachers in our focus groups expressed a strong sense of obligation not only to help black students learn academic content and skills but also to ensure that their broader developmental needs are being met.

When I was writing Baker Towers, I felt a real sense of obligation to the region and the people who live there.

Forget economics, comfort, pleasure... There is an absolute value, translating into a rather powerful sense of obligation, to do whatever I reasonably can to see that extinction of this life experiment we're all involved in doesn't terminate if we can prevent it.

However, giving just because there's a social sense of obligation to give perpetuates the unnecessary consumerism that is the bane of our North American landfill sites.

Legal professionalism — in the basic sense of obligation to serve clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law — would also be favoured by a market that provided the best rewards for personal plight firms that actually do so.

Here are some basic questions to help you detect a false sense of obligation and to help you discover viable options when you feel trapped or guilty:

During this time she has continued to maintain a clear sense of obligation to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers, families and communities.

I get the sense from talking to my peers that they don't feel the need to work with their gallerists the way artists used to, that there's no longer the same sense of obligation.

This often includes a common world view through their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, a deep sense of obligation to family, and similar upbringings in places of poverty and financial hardship.

Self - motivated leader with more than 8 years warehouse experience - possess the required determination to improve performance with utmost sense of obligation and carefulness.

Whether it's a sense of obligation or because you think it's a good idea in the moment, an impulsive yes often leads to big problems.

The idea is to exceed their expectations, engage their interest, and build their loyalty — and perhaps even a sense of obligation to you — by sending them a package of materials and goodies that's unexpected and so impressive that it takes their breath away.

He admits that in 2012, he wasn't in the sport for the right reasons, being pulled back in to train by a sense of obligation and resignation after establishing himself as the most decorated Olympian ever.

Starbucks made it clear from the beginning that we welcome veterans and military spouses not out of a sense of obligation or patriotism, but because we need them.

We are not serving with gladness and love, but out of a sense of obligation so as not to let anyone down.

The sense of obligation was seen as the problem rather than the cure to man's ills.

One reason might be that he can not tolerate a sense of obligation to anyone; and if he got a good volunteer to handle the machine, he would have to be grateful; and since grateful feelings embarrass him, he cranks the machine, finally, to prevent the embarrassment of gratitude.

I have no doubt that even those of us who've come out of no more than a sense of obligation and fulfillment of the Easter Duty have brought hearts open and ready to be touched by God.

Any sense of obligation or attachment I had to the job was misplaced; it took me a long time to realise that.

We wish none there save those in whom all sense of obligation is underlain and lifted as by a rising tide with the sense of privilege in being friends.

Hence, despite frequent setbacks, the Hebrews began to rationalize the sense of obligation.

In the sixth section of Discourse on Method, he writes of his sense of obligation to share his ideas with his society as well as his belief that one should strive to assist his fellow man: «I believed that I could not keep them hidden without greatly sinning against the law that obliges us to procure, as much as is in us to do so, the general well - being of all men» (61).

Thanks be to God that He has chosen to forgive me, not in spite of myself, not out of a sense of obligation, but because He has chosen to do so.

I don't want my children to grow up with a sense of obligation to read the Bible or go to church or say prayers.

A debased notion of conscience — a barely concealed enthusiasm for autonomy disguised as an appeal to the primacy of conscience — weakens our sense of obligation, damages our purity of heart, and makes it harder to see God.