obligational authority.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"obligational" disputation shows, in some authors 'theories, a marked similarity to recent theories of counterfactual reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Obligationes] Reference

In the obligational form of disputation, an opponent puts something forward to a respondent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy] Reference

It's not like I have to answer to anyone about it, or as if I have some obligational contract here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family, Christmas, Pain, Whatever] Reference

So by an agreement of the disputing parties, as in obligational disputes, we can impose on it a new signification and not use it according to its common signification.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Buridan] Reference

Within the context of obligationes, the issue seems to have revolved around how institution or imposition affected the correct responses in an obligational disputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Obligationes] Reference

So by an agreement of the disputing parties, as in obligational disputes, we can impose on it a new signification, and not use it according to its common signification.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Buridan] Reference

Moreover, while it is certainly true that obligational disputations never require an impossibility to follow when a possibility is posited, that fact does not by itself account for some of the most characteristic features of obligationes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Obligationes] Reference

The Centre for Human Rights Promotion (CHRP) has appealed to the US government to ratify the International Child Rights Convention and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to give credit to its moral and obligational role on human rights before the international community.    From Wordnik.com.  [US told to ratify child rights convention] Reference

MSN: johnnie@email. t-com.hr to request a free non obligational quote for your Shuttle Service & transfers.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

In addition, the accumulated obligational authority of the Federal Government for future payment totals over 80 billion dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference

Of course, as the talks progress the Icelanders will realize that those non-obligational, exploratory talks are more mythological than the Viking heroes of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Referendum] Reference

For years people in favour of EU membership have claimed it was possible to enter some kind of a non-obligational "scouting talks" with the EU just to find out what kind of a deal Iceland would be able to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Referendum] Reference

One of the most interesting historically is sophism 47, ˜You know that the king is seated™, in which Kilvington departs from the usual format to call some of the rules of obligational disputation into question (for discussion, see Kretzmann and Stump 1985; Kretzmann 1990, pp. 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Kilvington] Reference