How To Use Obliged In A Sentence
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He did not seem overcome with pleasure at the idea of Philippa's visit, and she felt a little disappointed, but she had been interested in his talk; and as she went back to the house with Miss Mervyn, her mind was so full of it, that she felt obliged to tell her all about Tuvvy and Dennis, and her own plans for Becky's benefit.
Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes
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In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference.
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The key to their popularity was government subsidy and regulation that obliged motorists and oil companies to use biofuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Should we accept that corporate bosses do bad things not because of the badness of their hearts but because they are obliged to?
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In the beginning of the ninth century St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, states that all are obliged to observe xerophagy during those seasons
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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I have been told they should have made an appointment before visiting and I am not obliged to tell them anything.
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Hungary, yet was my attorney obliged to solicit the instrument called ritter-diploma, for which, under pain of execution, I must pay two thousand florins.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
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Security Council, in its reaction to the September 11 attacks, obliged member states to "criminalize" terrorist attacks - not to declare war on terrorists.
Daphne Eviatar: Graham Bill Plays Right Into al Qaeda's Hands
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In summary, if you receive a demand for the return of overpaid tax credits, don't feel obliged to pay it all in one go.
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People were therefore obliged by considerations of self-interest to obey the commands of established government.
English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
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The law has also been changed so that private broadcasters are obliged to play the anthem when they come on air and at closedown, as is already the case for state-run TV and radio.
Cumpulsory Anthem Law Hits Wrong Note in Kyrgyzstan
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If you or anyone else can help me to sort out the security issues I would be much obliged.
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Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
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For reasons of the heart, I was later obliged to dive into Italy's Caffeinated Complications: ristretto vs. espresso, lungo vs. Americano; black vs. 'stained' with warm/cold milk; served in a glass vs. a cup -- and so on.
Juliet Linley: Koffee for Kids?
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Local authorities are legally obliged to record unmet needs and disclose details of these.
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The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
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The CIA is on of the highest police type agency in this Country, if they are not obliged to follow the laws of this great land then why should any other person in this land be held acountable for anything.
Republican calls Holder decision 'bulls**t'
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After that, she was obliged to describe where she had been the night before her husband's death, the mode of transportation which had brought her home, and more et ceteras? all, in short, that she'd told Lord Quentin and the magistrate, repeatedly.
Captives Of The Night
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We are often obliged to report on mayhem and savage behaviour perpetrated by thugs who are barely out of rompers.
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Under the new regime, companies will be obliged to assign a dollar value to retirement benefits and share options.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir, A cyclist is not obliged to fit a bell to his cycle but must have an audible means of warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had been obliged by his threats to seek accommodation elsewhere.
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New groups have always been obliged to build a fan base before a record company will sign them.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hands were completely tied on this one, and those who now criticise him for doing what he was legally obliged to do are being unfair in the extreme to him.
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Whereas in times when there was some order and government the travellers might be safe in the open roads, and the robbers were forced to lurk in the by-ways, no, on the contrary, the robbers insulted on the open roads without check, and the honest travellers were obliged to sculk and walk through by-ways, in continual frights.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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This screen was placed there at the time she found herself obliged to take to her chamber; and in the depth of our concern, and the fulness of other discourse at our first interview, I had forgotten to apprize the Colonel of what he would probably see.
Clarissa Harlowe
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I was obliged to diet myself.
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a corporation, without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king, for permission to exercise their usurped privileges {See Madox Firma Burgi p. 26 etc.}.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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Last week's vitriolic attacks obliged the local party establishment to close ranks around her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paterfamilias is obliged to drink the cup of gaiety to the dregs, which is almost worse than being in office.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
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Wife to have me disobliged, that I might get me gone, and so rid her of the Company of an ill Husband; Cloris, that I might be prevented from going, that she might retain her beloved Gallant.
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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To date the local authority has been obliged to notify the owner and occupier that the property will be revalued, but this will no longer be the case.
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As an Australian I feel obliged to speak up for the splade, which is our own variation on the spork concept.
About sporks
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He was obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate.
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But part of the recognition of the Fall is to realize that though no person is wholly good or wholly evil, one is still obliged to fight on the side of justice, even if one's side is tainted by sin and impure motives.
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Local authorities are not obliged to provide public conveniences, but if they do they ought to be kept clean and functional, even if it means charging the public for using them.
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Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages.
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At length a peasant was found who suited our purpose; but he considered two florins per diem too little pay, so I was obliged to give an additional zwanziger.
Visit to Iceland
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If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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She said under the settlement the BHF was obliged to advise members of the commission's concern about the use of the reference price list and caution them against using it collusively.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Obliged to work for his living from the age of 8, Gorky roamed all over Russia.
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I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Company's steamer ‘Nemesis,’ under my command, was obliged to part company with the fleet, being light, and consequently very leewardly.
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It said that under guidance published by the government four years ago, councils were obliged to seek out safe investments that delivered the highest returns.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the afternoon following the colonel's visit to Mink Run, old Peter, when he came for Phil, was obliged to stay long enough to see the antics of the mechanical mule; and had not that artificial animal suddenly refused to kick, and lapsed into a characteristic balkiness for which there was no apparent remedy, it might have proved difficult to get Phil away.
The Colonel's Dream
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Though she was Abram's wife, and, as such, was obliged to return, yet he calls her Sarai's maid, to humble her.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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He was reportedly obliged to leave London under a police escort, pursued by an angry mob.
Times, Sunday Times
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This meant that in his search for a new language to express himself he was obliged to break existing artistic conventions, which required an elegance and polish that stifled all feelings.
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But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter!
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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In the first, because of the large sums obliged to be levied off them, as compensation to those whose cattle were maliciously houghed, or whose houses were burned; and in the latter, because of the great boon (the grant to improve the river) bestowed on Ireland by that government of which Lord Normanby was a prominent member.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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When he was positively obliged to dine at his own cost, he sent his tiger to fetch a couple of dishes from a cookshop, never spending more than twenty-five sous.
Albert Savarus
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Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle.
TV highlights 21/07/2011: Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | John Oliver's New York | BBC Proms 2011: Mark Elder Conducts The Hallé | Art Of Survival | Shameless US
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He insisted on the scenes of the 5th and 6th of October, and on the dinners of the Life Guards, alleging that she had at that period framed a plot, which obliged the people to go to Versailles to frustrate it.
Archive 2008-10-12
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Management are obliged to consult with union representatives about possible redundancies.
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Before all that, Simon had been obliged to reason with Matthau, who initially insisted that he wanted to play the impossibly particular Felix rather than the slovenly Oscar because, he said, that would involve real acting.
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I say fortunately, as Heaven knows what would have happened to us if we had been obliged to cross a crevassed surface in such weather as we then had.
The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim
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The final test obliged both competitors to take it in turns to try to drop dried peas into the narrow neck of a wine bottle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The minister was obliged to report at least once every six months.
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They were shown the plan of a building, and the ‘greater’ members, furnished with trowels, were obliged to build it in edibles, the ‘lesser’ acting as hodmen, and bringing materials.
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Manufacturers are not legally-obliged to provide you with a guarantee, but if they do it must be in plain English and clearly explain how to make a claim.
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He did not feel obliged to conform to the rules that applied to ordinary men.
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In 1848, however, the abdicating French King claimed the collection as his personal property, and the young Second Republic obliged, sending it after him to England, whence it was dispersed.
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The shepherd, with his staff, now obliged them to move on; but no sooner did the fluter begin to play again, than his interested audience returned to him.
Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
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Norrie, perspiring happily, obliged with an equally wonderful rendition of `Dead Ringer '.
TICKLED PINK
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The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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Junior officers in the British army require their commanding officer's permission to marry or they are obliged to resign their commission.
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That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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‘I was gaining on the lead Corvette before I was obliged to execute the drive through penalty’ Chris said.
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Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
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Their gowns or tunics are so immensely long, that the fair dames are obliged to hold them up, to enable them to move; whilst a sweeping train trails after them; and over the head and round the neck is a variety of, or substitute for, the wimple, which is termed a _gorget_.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
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Insurance companies are obliged to recover the cost of everything insured when it is lost or dwoulmaged during the vwoulsid period of insurance.
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I was obliged to reprimand him for the sake of discipline.
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Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige, but becomes rather an object of pity.
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But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.
The Water Babies
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Antuñano is unfortunately very deaf, and obliged to use an ear-trumpet.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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You need not feel obliged to contribute.
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Under the new regime, companies will be obliged to assign a dollar value to retirement benefits and share options.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would he feel obliged to put him in bilboes and bring him to court-martial, or could he just feed him to the sharks the crew won't say nothin', or what?
The pirate smiles the fabulous smile of celebrity.
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I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry.
A Legend of Montrose
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Ricardo reasoned that if ‘Government delayed receiving the tax for one year… it would, perhaps, be obliged to issue an Exchequer bill bearing interest, and it would pay as much for interest as the consumer would save in price.’
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_limax maximus_ or garden slug, known to science -- to omit from their calculations the fact that they are likely every day to receive a large number of visitors, whom they will be obliged to keep waiting; and that these people will require somewhere to wait.
Jill the Reckless
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Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
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Only in cases of difficult deliveries, which most often resulted in the death of the mother, child, or both, was the colonial midwife bound by any sort of legislation; in such a case it obliged her to seek a surgeon's aid for the suffering parturient.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Some theologians object to the idea that a person ordained online is called a "reverend" but isn't necessarily obliged to act on all of a traditionally trained reverend's premarriage duties, such as counseling a couple before their wedding day.
Chapel Bound: Getting Ordained Online
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It would, of course, be easier for landlords if all letting agents were obliged by law to abide by financial protection arrangements.
Times, Sunday Times
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With such numberless callers as I have daily received from all parts of the United States, the frequent courtesies from the families of congressional members, and the occasionally accepted invitations to the theatre, the opera, or other public entertainments (many of which invitations, while appreciating the kindly spirit, I was obliged to decline), my leisure moments were much occupied.
Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
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Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn.
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In a miscellaneous company, Mrs. Pryor rarely opened her lips; or, if obliged to speak, she spoke under restraint, and consequently not well; in dialogue, she was a good converser: her language, always a little formal, was well chosen; her sentiments were just; her information was varied and correct.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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He has also commissioned Andrew Roberts, the flamboyant historian, to draw up a list of events children will be obliged to learn about under a Conservative government.
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I am obliged always to use the English word 'Grace' in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say, of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done.
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He refutes the neo-Weberian argument that financial demands of warfare obliged monarchies to develop modern bureaucracies.
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With the amount of misinformation out there on diesel and turbo charging diesels we feel obliged to inform you of the facts.
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Legally, the council is obliged to deal with noise and air pollution and only has to respond to queries about vermin infestations.
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This mechanical and repetitive work was certainly uncongenial, but so in a different way was the company that Dickens was obliged to keep.
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The problem is exacerbated by the simple fact that only one side, Hamas, can call an effective halt to this because if Israel calls a ceasefire Hamas feel disobliged to observe it.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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North duly obliged and was declarer in four hearts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pupils taking a science baccalaureate would be obliged to study a foreign language and those studying the arts version would have to include basic maths and science.
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‘Now I am obliged to read this order to you,’ continued the Pastor quickly, holding up a document edged with gilt.
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Some fast food restaurants will be obliged to install costly emission-control vents.
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We were obliged to fail along clofe by the bays; and feeing multitudes fetting imder the trees, I ordered a third gun to be fired among the cocoa-nut-trees to fcare them; for my bufinefs being to wood and water, I thought it neceffary to ftrike fome terror into the inhabitants, who were very numerous, and (by what I faw now, and had formerly ex - perienced) treacherous.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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But if it has Security Council authority it must be answerable to the Security Council and obliged to report to it
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As the author of twenty-six books, most of them biographies, I've developed a kind of motto: "The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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After coffee we were obliged to go to the dogana to see to the searching of all our trunks and luggage.
Letters and Journals 01
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Clotilde, who was very expert at this sort of architecture, was obliged to remain with the children, whilst Marian and O'Brian walked on, for standing spectator is cold work in a March wind.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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A number of German words have become current in general South Australian English (mettwurst, leberwurst or liverwurst, and the ubiquitous fritz, for example, all describing types of sausage), but spelling, especially in words containing - ie -, is often so uncertain that a correspondent in the local newspaper felt obliged to point out that a Wiener Schnitzel has nothing to do with wine and a Liedertafel need not be sorrowful.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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The storm got worse and worse. Finally, I was obliged to abandon the car and continue on foot.
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Why should I be obliged to trade my rare steak for some fool's chicken Kiev?
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The costs of farming obliged farmers to abandon mixed farming and autarky for market orientation and specialization.
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But as philosophy was widely spread over the world, at the time when Christianity arose, the teachers of the new sect were obliged to form a system of speculative opinions; to divide, with some accuracy, their articles of faith; and to explain, comment, confute, and defend with all the subtilty of argument and science...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series:
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Patients eventually develop a resistance to AIDS drugs, so doctors are obliged to rotate the type of medication.
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I had promised to lend him money but finally I disobliged him for lack of money.
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When every citizen is obliged to surrender DNA and a finger or retina print to a national database, it suggests that the state has some proprietary right over that information and the citizen's identity.
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To combat this double machination of Satan, he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work, and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
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I'm not contractually obliged to do cobblers, which is how the comedy world - which is so tightly managed in this country - works.
The Guardian World News
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He was obliged to appear before lawmakers because in addition to unattributed articles and journals, he is also accused of lifting work from parliament's research department, a potential abuse of office.
German opposition jumps on plagiarism
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One of the virtues of being a royal consort rather than a politician is that you are not obliged to chase ratings.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum.
The most unusual book in your house.
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Whenever obliged to walk around the large, open-plan office, I clasp my hands firmly behind my back, rather in the manner of the Duke of Edinburgh.
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'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.'
The Pickwick papers
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Divson obliged, his single hand not shaking in the least as his free one searched blind for the objects, produced them and slid them to Prast.
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“I, who am upon the spot . . . know of the infinite difficulty of resisting the powerful solicitations of great men who, if disobliged, might have it in their power to obstruct the supplies Deane was then obtaining.”
Robert Morris
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Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.'
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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The final test obliged both competitors to take it in turns to try to drop dried peas into the narrow neck of a wine bottle.
Times, Sunday Times
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I fear that yes consumerism has become the new religion and that we are now obliged to bow down before the almighty market.
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Russia was also obliged to pay 6 billion gold marks in reparations.
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Instead of making the case for disaster relief, he has been obliged to waste hours ‘clarifying’ initial undiplomatic remarks that he made about the stinginess of wealthy nations.
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Some mornings she preferred the house to herself, alone with her thoughts instead of being obliged to listen to gossip.
FINAL RESORT
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One of the virtues of being a royal consort rather than a politician is that you are not obliged to chase ratings.
Times, Sunday Times
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It used to be culturally acceptable to burn witches, but not every judge obliged.
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This initially took the form of the Redundancy Payments Act of 1965, which obliged employers to pay compensation to employees who were made redundant.
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And so, as it appeared, Mr. Dallas was of that opinion, for the very next day he applied to Chancery for a brieve to get Charles Napier served nearest and lawful heir to his uncle; and as in legal warfare, where the judges are cognisant only of patent claims, there is small room for retiring tactics, Mr. White felt himself obliged, however anxious he was to gain time, to follow his opponent's example by taking out a competing brieve in favour of Henrietta.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
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In former days, a young man arriving at Calcutta as a writer, had no difficulty in raising money by borrowing from some wealthy _circar_; and many of those very young men are still hampered with debts they can never pay: though high in office, and enjoying large salaries, they are tied to the country by their creditors, to whom they are obliged to give
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
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Under the law, we were obliged to publish the paper within three months, failing which the permission would lapse.
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The entry into loch Crinan is wide, and would admit of vefsels sailing out of it almost with any wind j and vefsels going southward cr northward with a fair wind, would not suffer any retardment by being obliged to alter th'iir course.
The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense
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It is so easy to become involved in local jealousies, and to be obliged to go on seeing acquaintances
TESTIMONIES
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I was obliged to leed him home to John Street, where I left him in the hangry arms of Mrs. Shum.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
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He was obliged to pay a ￡40 speeding fine.
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The weak are obliged to submit to his exactions, or fly the country; and the aumil, unable to reduce the more powerful, is compelled to enter into a disgraceful compromise.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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In a post-rankist world, we'd all feel as obliged to keep our promises to those whom we outrank as we do to those who outrank us.
Robert Fuller: Eight Ways You Can Stop Rankism
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Churches, unions, parties, bourgeois conventions, working-class and peasant cultures no longer furnish models which all are obliged to observe if they do not wish to be ostracized.
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Now, he was once again obliged to find a perch on the centre cowling.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi.
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I'd be obliged if you would complete and return the form as soon as possible.
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with vain labors" on My part to purify her without being obliged to have recourse to judgments (compare Isa 43: 24; Mal 2: 17) [Maurer].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Kiss Chase Kate, they sold her pints on the promise of a peek, a snatch, a snapshot carved into a keyhole, a freezeframe of the zoetrope, and though she thought she'd left that all behind, behind the bikeshed, she obliged;
Day 13: Bikesheds
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The higgler to whom the hare was sold, being unfortunately taken many months after with a quantity of game upon him, was obliged to make his peace with the squire, by becoming evidence against some poacher.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Serbia they were obliged to stand and watch the janissaries come back to the pashalik of Belgrade, though the Turks had sworn this should not be.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
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Professor Bastian, in considering the heterogenetic phenomena of "living matter," is obliged to fall back, near the end of his great work, on "the countless myriads of living units which have been evolved (?) in the different ages of the world's history.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Gripes, by means of the aluminous sharp Particles of its Earth; Its Air is also so bad, as has obliged several to remove from its Situation for their
The London and Country Brewer
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Every ambitious 19th-century show, especially in the area of Impessionism and post-Impressionism, has been obliged to borrow from this fabulous trove of avant-garde painting.
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I was struck recently by the way modern men feel obliged to advise rising generations.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only fitting that there should be a female winner on Ladies Day and trainer Venetia Williams obliged when Limerick Boy won the novices' hurdle handicap.
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No, he felt obliged to compose works that couldn't possibly sustain their elephantine size, mega extended canvases that often occupied two or three entire CDs.
The Jazz Scene: Whirling Through a Wynton Wonderland
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Also, it seems that every description of him is legally obliged to include the word scrappy at least once, so there you go.
MVN
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He insisted on the scenes of the 5th and 6th of October, and on the dinners of the Life Guards, alleging that she had at that period framed a plot, which obliged the people to go to Versailles to frustrate it.
Archive 2008-10-12
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Corinthians seized66 on the heights of Geraneia, and thence made a descent with their allies into the Megarian territory, thinking that the Athenians, who had so large a force absent in Aegina and in Egypt, would be unable to assist the Megarians; or, if they did; would be obliged to raise the siege of Aegina.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss.
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He had provided for them, in what she had to regard as a felon 's way, and now she was obliged to worry about him.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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The Puritan charges to which Hooker felt obliged to respond were at times quite specific, either contrary to Scripture or unscriptural.
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Weakened by warfare, imported diseases and the excessive demands of their overlords, they were obliged in the end to submit.
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Colonel Honeywood [13] are obliged to sell their commands at half-value, and leave the army, for drinking destruction to the present Ministry, and dressing up a hat on a stick, and calling it Harley; then drinking a glass with one hand, and discharging a pistol with the other at the maukin, [14] wishing it were Harley himself; and a hundred other such pretty tricks, as inflaming their soldiers, and foreign
The Journal to Stella
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He wished his old aunt Crumpe, he said, to live and enjoy all she had as long as she could; and if she chose to leave it to him after her death, well and good; he should be much obliged to her: if she did not, why well and good; he should not _be obliged_ to be obliged to her: and that, to his humour, would perhaps be better still.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02
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The council will launch its annual registration drive at the end of August, and people are legally obliged to respond.
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Last night when the vertigo-induced nausea was making it hard to sleep, the brain obliged by writing a big chunk of [cue ominous pipe organ music here] the dreaded synopsis.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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And just as under apartheid, people have been obliged to reformulate their ethnic identities in order to get access to resources.
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Weakened by warfare, imported diseases and the excessive demands of their overlords, they were obliged in the end to submit.
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The gomeral is much obliged," said I. "And was not this prettily done!" he went on.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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-- I am much obliged to "SELEUCUS" for his answer to this inquiry, as far as regards the seignory of Gower.
Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
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He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte.
Les Miserables
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He's obliged to take his turn at reading out the announcements.
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It was a cross – country road, full, after the first three or four miles, of holes and cart – ruts, which, being covered by the snow, were so many pitfalls to the trembling horses, and obliged them to keep a footpace.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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I feel obliged, however late, to commend them on the successful staging of the Celtic Fusion concert last month.
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Already, the replicative and mutative technologies of cloning and morphing have obliged us to review the complacent assumption of our unique ontological status as human subjects.
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Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux [1], are indeed strange insipid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous.
Life Of Johnson
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The man was obliged to render up the land he had unlawfully enclosed.
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Obliged to adopt the remuneration norms from the West, the Churches abandoned in part their tradition of equality, and a new schism entered into ecclesiastical society between the rich and the less well off.
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Rank was contractually obliged to hand him a cheque for $30 million.
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Customers can ask for a pound of bananas, but traders are obliged to weigh them in metric units.
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‘Hosing down the pavement so residents and tradespeople may use the back gate is not what I expected to be obliged to do when I became warden here,’ she added.
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In an age when imperial warriors were better educated, if not better intentioned, than they are today, a Victorian warrior made a pun at which all future generations of Latin pupils were obliged to affect mild amusement.
Latin for American special forces
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Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school.
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He had nae ill will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hoisting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid.
Redgauntlet
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This poor kin inconvenience oneself again, be obliged secretly complain of suffering.
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The Georgian forces defended the capital but were finally obliged to concede.
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I was obliged to abandon that idea.
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There is no similar surviving embroidery and historians of art have thus been obliged to draw parallels with manuscript illumination and drawings.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Of course a novelist is not obliged to write directly about contemporary history, but a novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot.
Collected Essays
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A wrongdoer is not legally obliged to make a public confession, or to alert people who may have claims against it, to get the benefit of a statute of limitations.
New York Civil Procedure
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How long is a ship obliged to remain on demurrage, and what are the rights of the owner if the charterer detains her too long?
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For reasons of the heart, I was later obliged to dive into Italy's Caffeinated Complications: ristretto vs. espresso, lungo vs. Americano; black vs. 'stained' with warm/cold milk; served in a glass vs. a cup -- and so on.
Juliet Linley: Koffee for Kids?
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Delvile, his grandfather, who, disobliged by his eldest son, the present lord, left every thing he had power to dispose of to his second son, Mr
Cecilia
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The Dudleian lecturers insisted that natural religion pointed to a moral law that men were obliged to follow.
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The drivers are obliged to take a middle line and it will be interesting if they are two or three abreast.
Times, Sunday Times
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For insurance purposes, players are obliged to be fully paid-up members prior to the start of playing season.
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He was obliged to make his way forward by digging approaches, a lengthy and laborious process.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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They were obliged to confess that Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless State in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated State, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilized countries.
Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863.
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And not so long ago, an exhibition such as this would have felt obliged to point this out, to provide long wall texts explaining that modern art's "primitivism" was the racist culture of an age of empire.
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