civic obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcivicandobligation
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civic
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsɪv.ɪk/us/ˈsɪv.ɪk/
of a town or city or the people who live ...
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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 ofcivicandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He makes a compelling case that, as citizens who have thought carefully about the matter, bioethicists have acivicobligationto make their thinking clear to their fellow citizens.
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Different periods of governance might affect the extent to which individuals possess a sense ofcivicobligationand duty or a claim to specific rights.
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Gradually, then, acivicobligationassociated with honor, duty, and collective effort faded and became replaced with one that highlights government's extractive role and individual obligations to contribute resources.
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It is monstrous that in putting down one's name on an electoral register, which it is acivicobligationto do, one should be exploited in this way.
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Nearing instead outlined an economic republicanism based upon four basic democratic conceptsequality of opportunity,civicobligation, popular government, and human rights.
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Once this option ceased to exist, no single institution emerged with the moral authority and material resources to enforce customary kinship, religious, and civic obligations.
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However, citizens have civic obligations, and they should be rendered, in this case by exercising their vote.
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It ends with "any work or service which forms part of normal civic obligations".
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That was covered under the convention because it was permissible to carry out civic obligations and, in those circumstances, it might have been included.
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Conscription, national service, prison labour, service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity, and normal civic obligations are excepted from these definitions. 1.
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Representation was one of the civic obligations ("munera") owed to the state by citizens.
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