[ + to infinitive ] If you have not signed a contract, you are under no obligation to (= it is not necessary to) pay them any money. நீங்கள் ஒரு ஒப்பந்தத்தில் கையெழுத்திடவில்லை என்றால், நீங்கள் அவர்களுக்கு எந்த பணத்தையும் செலுத்த வேண்டிய கட்டாயம் இல்லை (=அது தேவையில்லை)
You have a legal obligation to (= the law says you must) ensure your child receives an education. உங்கள் பிள்ளை கல்வியைப் பெறுவதை உறுதிசெய்ய உங்களுக்கு சட்டபூர்வமான கடமை உள்ளது (=நீங்கள் வேண்டும் என்று சட்டம் கூறுகிறது)
something that you must do நீங்கள் செய்ய வேண்டிய ஒன்றுI don't have time to do his work for him - I have too many obligations as it is. அவருக்காக அவரது வேலையைச் செய்ய எனக்கு நேரம் இல்லை-அது போலவே எனக்கு பல கடமைகள் உள்ளன
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While some felt strongly that it is an obligation, others referred to the difficulties the responsibility created.
What, then, are the implications for backward-looking concepts such as obligations of commitment, desert, responsibility and punishment?
Helping others whom one has assumed no prior obligation to help is the quintessential way to make anyone's existence significant to some degree.
Given that the samples were drawn exclusively from large urban areas, the level of support for filial obligations is remarkable.
To be fair, the book is explicitly an institutional history, and as such has no obligation to engage large historiographical themes.
Consequently, does society have a moral obligation to mitigate the differences in health for which we are personally responsible?
This article focuses on one aspect of the immigrant older person's experience and situation, their perceptions about filial obligations.
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