"It will be the primary obligation for my term," Clinton says, meaning the next five years.

"My first and primary obligation is to do justice to the five Senators in that room," he says.

Providing safety for his citizens was one of a ruler's primary obligations.

Before I could dismiss him formally, he was taken from me by his primary obligation.

The House's primary obligation is to handle the case in a fair, nonpartisan way.

A primary obligation of the sisters was to visit the poor.

But the society maintains that its primary obligation is to provide effective representation, however long it takes.

She added that her primary obligations were to the public rather than her colleagues.

Our primary obligation is to service the cases that come before us now.

To that, Chestnut says his "primary obligation is to those who pay for our service."