Which preposition to use with obligations
When he had finished his novitiate and taken on him the obligations of the full Buddhist orders, his earnest courage, clear intelligence, and strict regulation of his demeanor, were conspicuous; and soon after, he undertook his journey to India in search of complete copies of the Vinaya-pitaka.
I don't say I'm not without my obligations to you, but that's not one of them.
On whose behalf he meant to establish a claim I did not know, nor who the man was who had laid us under so great an obligation on his death-bed.
Some years ago I occupied a suite of rooms in the second story of a house rented by a widow lady, to whom I had been under some obligations in my boyhood, and whom my mother always regarded as her best friend.
But theologians hold that there is no grave obligation for such prior-to-Mass recital, and that any reasonable cause excuses from the obligation (Lehmkuhl II., 628).
In commencing these remarks, mention was made of the great obligations under which the naturalist lies to the geologist and palaeontologist.
It is excellent, in its author, for it has been constructed and imposed as an obligation by the supreme pontiffs, the vicars of Jesus Christ, the supreme pastors of the whole Church.
"Established by the Church," to distinguish the official prayers of obligation from those which the faithful may choose according to their taste.
on whom history has cast innumerable stains, England has considerable obligations as a legislator.
"That which they desire above all is to insure a peace upon the principles of liberty and justice, upon the inviolable fidelity to international obligation with which the government of the United States has never ceased to be inspired.
Duty of Truthfulness an Obligation toward God.
In my annual message I expressed the conviction, which I have long deliberately held, and which recent reflection has only tended to deepen and confirm, that no State has a right by its own act to secede from the Union or throw off its federal obligations at pleasure.
I would likewise desire them to consider, whether they are not bound in common Humanity, as well as by all the Obligations of Religion and Nature, to make some Provision for those whom they have not only given Life to, but entail'd upon them, [tho very unreasonably, a Degree of] Shame and [Disgrace. ]
For the last fourteen years the habitants had been gradually drifting away from their former habits of obedience and former obligations towards their leaders in church and state.
The girl answered modestly, that it was her duty to obey all her commands, but she found no inclination to marriage; and if she would permit her to live single, she should think it a greater obligation than any other she could bestow.
Dec. 23.] derogatory from the authority of parliament; they absolved their partisans from the obligations into which they had entered; and they commanded them once more to unsheath the sword in the cause of their[a] God and their country.
Only those who have followed the development of mutual obligations between the Entente Powers are able to understand the role which Russia's two comrades (France and England)to say nothing at all of Italywould have played in this conference.
In the mean time, the Person who has lent the Money, has thought a Lady under Obligations to him, who scarce knew his Name; and wondered at her Ingratitude when he has been with her, that she has not owned the Favour, though at the same time he was too much a Man of Honour to put her in mind of it.
In all the works of this type which he wrote a cosmopolitan spirit is manifest, and since they were composed at a time when the power of absolute monarchy was not yet shaken, it became his main purpose insistently to set their obligations before the rulers and to point them to the happiness which they should find in the happiness of their subjects.
This condition has been exacted from the people of all the new territories, and to put its obligation beyond dispute each new State carved out of the public domain has been required explicitly to recognize it as one of the conditions of admission into the Union.
Such a guarantee would impose obligations without conferring rights upon us.
His was a sublime and childlike egotism which simply ignored obligations until, by chance, they were made legal, at which, when it happened, he protested like a spoiled child.
" "The Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D.D., late President of the (Methodist) Wesleyan University in Connecticut'The New Testament enjoins obedience upon the slave as an obligation due to a present rightful authority.'" "Rev. E.D. Simms, Professor in Randolph Macon College, a Methodist Institution'Thus we see, that the slavery which exists in America, was founded in right.'
Chancellor Kent on Moral Obligations in Law and in Equity.
The governing power and obligation over the flock is essential to the office of a Pastor or Presbyter as instituted by Christ.