Synonyms for incumbent on
in·cum·bent on

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1. incumbent on(p)adjective

   morally binding or necessary

   "it is incumbent on me to attend"

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1. Martin Dempsey:

   It will be incumbent on both of us to make sure that we provide the kind of reassurances that the state of Israel has always counted on us to provide. But we are going to have to do the same thing with the Gulf allies.

2. Ben Rhodes:

   I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. And I think it's incumbent on President Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.

3. Walter Scott:

   If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

4. Todd Durbin:

   Now more than ever it is incumbent on us to establish a competition that sets a new standard for elite youth play and allows athletes to achieve their full potential.

5. Robert Centor:

   Somebody has to step up, if you’re a primary care physician, it’s incumbent on you to have the discussion with patients before and especially after they get sick about goals. If we don’t know a patient’s goals, they can’t get the best possible care.