Sentences with phrase «social obligations»

The change is not in the number of true believers, but in the number of people who attend church just out of habit or a sense of social obligation.

With the holiday season approaching, it's easy to get caught up in social obligations and activities.

You also become inclined to skip on social obligations where you'd have to break your diet.

The very individuals who have done so much to renew the social conscience of the evangelical community have also been those who have rejected politics as a means of fulfilling social obligation.

We're all so busy with our lives these days, from managing our careers to meeting social obligations, that trying to find time for ourselves is nearly impossible.

But then, planning holiday events and managing social obligations is stressful to women.

It is true that legal aid is a collective social obligation that the state must support.

Good manners are about more than fulfilling bare - minimum social obligations.

As I finished reading this chapter in the book, the hair stood up on my neck with recognition of how impoverished my own ability to express social obligations had become.

Rather, lenders operated out of a sense of social obligation.

In this day and age, sometimes it feels like our schedules are jam packed with social obligations, work related events and tasks, doctor's appointments, and if you have children, all of their activities and appointments are added on top of that.

Three general insurers missed out on their rural obligations, while three more missed fulfiling social obligations as spelled out by sector regulator Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Irda).

Single men and women everywhere are falling in love; nonetheless frequently because of business commitments and social obligations many of us tend to be too occupied to look for love and achieving it.

Or in other words, with the definition of the authoritative parenting style Baumrind tries to theoretically strike a balance between satisfying social obligations towards family and society (behavioral) and individual child needs (Freudian).

On the other hand, unrestrained individualism leads neither to democracy nor to Christian social justice, but to the enhancement of acquisitiveness, an irresponsible use of power, exploitation of the weak, and to disregard of basic social obligations.

But I think there is a subjective truth you are expressing — that one feels freedom and perceived social obligation as opposing forces and that the juxtaposition can often be liberating albeit often short lived.

They argue that investment managers should exercise duties of stewardship, rather than maximising short - term returns; companies should serve the interests of a wider group of stakeholders, not only shareholders; successful businesses are rooted in their communities, acknowledging wider social obligations.

I recommend meditating daily and cutting back on social obligations while detoxing to really give yourself a chance to listen, reflect and experience what is happening.

He lives about 1.5 hours from me so we had not met yet (I prefer to just meet rather than talking on the phone), although he had suggested it, but since it was right before the holidays other social obligations had to be met, but he had the mid life red flags flapping pretty stiffly — he was SOOO into me before he even met me or talked to me, alluded to some heartbreak in the past year, etc. etc. — but you have to proceed with a little bit of fun and optimism, right?

In Yorgos Lanthimos's black comedy The Lobster, for example, the world of romance is portrayed as a dismal social obligation, where those who don't find their perfect match in 45 days are literally transformed into an animal of their choosing.

While it's stunning to look at, and Jason Isaacs» performance is a joy, I felt like leaving for most of the movie but social obligation meant I stuck with it.

What could be more fun than inventing a person who does not exist to get out of unwanted social obligations?

But with so many social obligations over December, entertaining with and gifting such potent potables can add up, says Adam McDowell, author of Drinks: A User's Guide.

The managing partners of large firms can be appealed to by casting the volunteer opportunity as an easy way for the firm to provide pro bono services to the general public and fulfill its unspoken social obligation, and by offering opportunities to publicly credit and the firms for their good work.

Rural needs The chairman said rural and social obligations need to be fulfilled by insurance companies.

But our laziness and sense of social obligation unfurl as a pile of «Happy Birthday!»

Either we're neck deep in social obligations or we're constantly grinding for a paycheck — either way we're not exactly eager to set aside huge amounts of time to work out every week.

When you are overloaded with social obligations, work, duties to your family, school activities, and other classes, dedicating the time you need to writing a great term paper is nearly impossible.

«It could be that games are imposing a sort of social obligation on these individuals so that they have to set aside time to play with other players.

If you sell water and flashlight batteries, a sense of social obligation ought to keep you open «as long as possible.»

But it's worth noting that many ethical issues in business simply can't straightforwardly be cast in terms of social obligations.

McManners» own contribution, the chapter on the Enlightenment, is particularly good, arguing that Christians of the period (1600 — 1800) continued the efforts of the Reformation to make religion sink in» to render it less a formal, social obligation and more a spiritual and personal reality.

So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

It describes a duty of society to retreat and give its members space to act on what they deem essential; an acknowledgment not of a human liberty or right, but of a human obligation that precedes the social obligation and so shapes it.

If we adults have any social obligation to youth, we are among other duties obligated to help them navigate that time — when their bodies are fully capable but brains not fully developed — to be aware of the dangers of sex.

Whether or not the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai amid thunder and lightning and great pictorial drama is to be taken literally, there is little question that the Hebrews entered Canaan with a clearer sense both of their covenant relation to their deity and of their moral and social obligations to each other than they had possessed prior to Moses» leadership.

This stringent creed, eschewing mention of responsibility and social obligation, maintains that the only way to run a business (or even a country) is to concentrate on maximizing profits in the near term.

It is an education that inculcates a dutiful regard for his or her potential and a social obligation to change «the issue.»

Broadcasting was deregulated during the early 1980s, and as long as deregulation remains in effect, the public can not expect an industry engaged in a constant «business war» over ratings to take seriously its social obligation to reduce the amount of violence in its programming.

Second, it is contrary to our social obligations: the whole human community is injured by self - killing.