• Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship.

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  • He criticized states that argued for "the right and obligation to use force pre-emptively" to head off perceived threats, but he urged the Security Council to figure out how to deal with similar questions in the future.

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  • Governments and social leaders do have the RIGHT and OBLIGATION to question the safety of vaccinations they are supposed to administer to their citizens, especially when the safety was not explained to them by the appropriate bodies.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | Are fears over polio vaccine valid?

  • The Republican cry that the government should not come between a doctor and her patient is fine in principle, but if the doctor and drug company are getting their money from the government then we have the right and obligation to have the brake of reason on the reimbursements.

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  • "The nations of UNASUR have the right and the obligation to ensure that, based on technicalities, the legitimacy of democracy is not broken in Paraguay, " Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said.

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  • Noting the education is the right of all children -- and the obligation of all governments, Ms. Bellamy stressed the urgency of ensuring access to quality education for the most marginalized children.

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  • And one of the wonderful things about democracy is that when the people are not happy, it is their right, obligation, and duty to express their unhappiness, much to the regret sometimes of incumbents.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Students in Mumbai

  • In other words, the employees, both union and management, general and public safety, are right now paying off the pension obligation bonds.

    FORBES: Wisconsin Shows Mix Of Unions, Pols A Recipe for Ruin

  • "If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign, " the pope said.

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  • The purpose -- the focus that he has is on our obligation to the security of American citizens and also getting the policy right.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The makers of Zero Dark Thirty, they went on, had "a social and moral obligation to get the facts right".

    BBC: Bin Laden film attacked for 'perpetuating torture myth'

  • You have a social and moral obligation to get the facts right.

    WSJ: Henninger: Hollywood Forgets 9/11

  • Individual states did recognize a right to travel armed with a musket to meet the legal obligation to attend militia musters, but states and localities regulated the exercise of this right and in some cases prohibited traveling with a loaded weapon or discharging a weapon at or near a muster.

    CNN: Put reason back in America's gun debate

  • If you are bearish on home builders, a put option on KB Home gives you the right, but not the obligation, to sell shares at a certain price before the option expires, and if your timing is right you could easily double your money in a short period of time.

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  • But we're moving in the right direction, and we are going to keep on fulfilling our obligation to do every single thing we possibly can to pull this economy out of the ditch and to make sure that people can find jobs that pay good wages.

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  • Ten out of those 11 were never brought on any charges, their assets were frozen until they went bankrupt and it chilled the First Amendment right of seven million American Muslims to do their religious obligation of paying charity.

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  • "If I'm a platoon with nobody behind, and I know that only that F-15 stands between me and the possibility of being overrun, then you're right I have an obligation to protect my soldiers or my Marines, " he says.

    NPR: Commanders Look For New Strategy In Afghanistan

  • Compensation is made up of salary, cash bonuses and long-term incentives, which are traditionally stock options that give executives the right but not the obligation to buy stock at a fixed price at some point in the future.

    FORBES: Are Utility CEO Pay Packages Fair Compared to Average Workers?

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