mutual obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutualandobligation
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mutual
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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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 ofmutualandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmutual obligation
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Results from a national survey of public opinion are used to explore community views on a range ofmutualobligationrequirements for the unemployed.
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Saunders wants to engage with these sorts of egalitarian and popular ideas (among others) and combine them with concepts ofmutualobligation.
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Finally,mutualobligationpolicies are likely to be expensive if they are to give jobless people a realistic chance of finding work.
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Several of the options included in the list related directly or indirectly to themutualobligationrequirements of government.
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It seems an easy slide from those intuitions to 'mutualobligation' policies demanding work-for-the-dole.
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This language ofmutualobligationshaped struggles in different periods.
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There are many different ways to structuremutualobligation.
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Most people also seemutualobligationas implying action on the part of government to reduce unemployment and ease the plight of the unemployed.
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As expected, those who are defined as seeing the world in individualist terms tend to supportmutualobligation, while the collectivists are opposed to it.
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First, in terms of support for more onerousmutualobligationrequirements, women tend to take a consistently harsher line than men.
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Let us begin by dispelling any illusion of analytic necessity that might in this way attach to notions ofmutualobligation.
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Furthermore, what does the public see as the other side of themutualobligationcontract - the responsibility of government towards the unemployed?
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In a softer key, the notion ofmutualobligationis widely prevalent.
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The second, more contentious idea is that the shift tomutualobligationis consistent with public opinion.
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The income variables tend to be highly significant, with support formutualobligationincreasing as family income rises.
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For reasons of space, the following analysis is restricted solely to attitudes tomutualobligation.
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The focus here, however, is on the broad structure of 'mutualobligation' arguments for work-for-the-dole policies, wherever and in whatever particular form they are deployed.
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But how farmutualobligationconditions can be imposed on the unemployed (and other groups) is constrained by public opinion - the basis of the political legitimacy of the welfare system.
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