primary obligation

collocation in English

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primary
adjective
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/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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obligation
noun
uk
/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theprimaryobligationof man is autonomy, the refusal to be ruled.
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In the event of a bioterror attack, these public servants, rather than the medical profession as a whole, would have theprimaryobligation, and the requisite skills, to respond.
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Asch thought truth was ourprimaryobligation.
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The receivers'primaryobligationis to look after the interests of the bank that appointed them.
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In fact, the convergence obligations are secondary; theprimaryobligationis economic and monetary union.
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The previousprimaryobligationwas security of supply.
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Indeed, in the electrical power industry theprimaryobligationis laid upon the unions to achieve standards of safety on behalf of their members.
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Theprimaryobligationis to reduce capacity to meet multi-annual guidance programme targets.
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Operationally, it undermines ourprimaryobligationto defend our home waters by minehunters, minesweepers and offshore patrol vessels.
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We have complied with ourprimaryobligation, which is to fulfil our mandates, and will continue to do so in the future.
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The state'sprimaryobligationmust be to help those most in need.
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Theprimaryobligationwas to achieve as much as we could by the deadline.
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The commission has stated that the industry regulator'sprimaryobligationis to consumers.
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I would first suggest that theprimaryobligationin regard to shoddy house building lies with the housebuilder.
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Theprimaryobligationis that, when their services are needed, they do not withdraw them.
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These include theprimaryobligationto promote to the utmost the moral and material welfare and social progress of the inhabitants of the territories themselves.
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As practical men and women we regard the avoidance of that conflict as theprimaryobligationof our intervention and our controversy in foreign affairs.
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Theprimaryobligationin the relevant legislation is to repair any damage attributable to coal-mining subsidence.
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It was moreover discriminatory that theprimaryobligationto aliment a child should rest on the father irrespective of the resources of the mother.
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