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On Wednesday, Millar said "it was incumbent on everybody involved in the political world to be very careful about the language that they use, both online and elsewhere so that we don't inflame community tensions".

“It’s incumbent on employers to ensure the safety of their workers,” Michaels said.

It will therefore be incumbent on intellectuals, whoever they are, to serve as a kind of shadow government, offering the kinds of independent checks and balances that have otherwise been lost.

It is incumbent on medical institutions to champion female physicians, not only as rank-and-file doctors but also as leaders of the profession and its organizations.

Good child protection practices are expected of all organisations, but perhaps it is even more incumbent on religious institutions to get things right because of the moral leadership many expect of them.