0 the idea that someone with power and influence should use their social position to help other people
Without rights the excluded can request, they can beg, rely on noblesse oblige, on others being nice or generous or co-operative, or even foresighted.
Or is this just a new kind of noblesse oblige?
They shaped his unusual consideration for others, his sense of noblesse oblige and what he believed were his responsibilities towards others.
Therefore, to base yourselves on noblesse oblige does not support the case at all, because the public duty is presently being discharged.
Someone talked about noblesse oblige; my problem was noblesse obligatoire, which was a slightly different complaint.
Is it not a case of noblesse oblige?
It is a long time since the traditions of service to the community and noblesse oblige fled from the benches opposite.
It has a tradition of noblesse oblige.
