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Example sentences for "incumbent upon"

  • Spain had been left at the end of the wars that preceded his reign made it incumbent upon him to maintain peace and to further the country's recovery from a century and a half of constant warfare.

  • But he had deemed it incumbent upon himself to obey the commands of the governor of the island.

  • Santiago still being the nominal capital of the island, the new governor thought it incumbent upon him at least to visit it.

  • But I should never have accepted it had I not deemed it incumbent upon me not to receive any money at the hands of Prussia at a time when her exchequer is hardly able to pay the salary of a superfluous savant.

  • Before passing from one system of politics to another, it is incumbent upon me to secure my ally and to protect his crown.

  • It is incumbent upon you to commemorate and ponder upon the signs of God, to implore to God and to be evanescent and subservient in the Cause of God.

  • It is incumbent upon you to have affinity and accord, so that ye may become united in body and soul as the Pleiades, and as strings of brilliant pearls.

  • Verily it is incumbent upon thee to become a true believer in God, the All-Possessing, the Almighty, and to turn away from the one who guideth thee into the torment of hell-fire.

  • If thou dost ponder a while, it will be evident that it is incumbent upon a lowly servant to acquiesce to whatever proof God hath appointed, and not to follow his own idle fancy.

  • It is incumbent upon thee to reflect a while.

  • It is incumbent upon Bahá’í children to surpass .

  • It is incumbent upon everyone to seek medical .

  • It is incumbent upon everyone to show the utmost love, rectitude of conduct, straightforwardness and sincere kindliness unto all the peoples and kindreds of the world, be they friends or strangers.

  • It is incumbent upon you to be submissive to all monarchs that are just and to show your fidelity to every righteous king.

  • It is incumbent upon them to take counsel together and to have regard for the interests of the servants of God, for His sake, even as they regard their own interests, and to choose that which is meet and seemly.

  • It is incumbent upon all to be obedient unto them.

  • Should anyone unintentionally take another’s life, it is incumbent upon him to render to the family of the deceased an indemnity of one hundred miṯẖqáls of gold.

  • It is incumbent upon you to be submissive.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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