One friend said the experience, which arose from a sense of social and political obligation, left her feeling disappointed.

"We are American": that single sentence was a lesson in political obligation.

"We don't make policy to pay off political obligations, I hope."

"Events of the last 24 hours or so have freed me up from some political obligations," he said.

My calendar quickly filled with a host of social and political obligations.

We have a moral and political obligation to fulfill that pledge.

And they are far more likely to follow their pocketbooks than any sense of political obligation.

Even during her marriage, her husband's political obligations had often kept him from home.

These are the jobs most important to politicians, the ones Presidents use to meet their political obligations.

That is a matter of political and legal obligation.