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How to use obliged in a sentence

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Under the Dublin Convention, asylum seekers are obliged to seek refugee status in the first 'safe' country in which they arrive.
His mother was obliged to pull strings in order to get him a job interview.
Wharton was born Miss Jones, of the Joneses with whom one was obliged to keep up.
It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels obliged to adduce flimsy evidence and extrapolate fanciful conclusions from it.
Under insolvency law, administrators are not obliged to honour vouchers bought before their appointment.
Why should I be obliged to trade my rare steak for some fool's chicken Kiev?
During Ramadan, Muslims are obliged to abstain completely from food and drink during daylight hours.
These examples show that the princes on the throne of Kiev were obliged to get on well with Karakalpaks.
Pursuant to the lease, the tenant is obliged to pay its proportionate share of common area expenses and realty taxes.
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.
At the disruption they were obliged to move from the manse to a derelict cottage, to enable them to stay in the parish.
Do you feel obliged to tear out plastic windows in envelopes before recycling them?
He may then be obliged to reconstruct a past event, of which he has no memory, by references or deductions from the information provided to him.
The tenant or local agent is obliged to deduct 25 per cent withholding tax from rental income and send it to the tax office.
When Ting returns to the fight club, he's obliged to defend the honour of Thai womanhood from a shaggy Australian behemoth.
Do they have to hold a licence, to pass a test, be insured, display L-plates, or are they exempt and not obliged to wear crash helmets?
Someone else pointed out that it wasn't a request stop, therefore he was obliged to stop.
We teach our students that they are obliged to study the broader social world.
And just as under apartheid, people have been obliged to reformulate their ethnic identities in order to get access to resources.
Ah yes, that's certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As for the detainer against me, I was obliged to go through the court for the relief of insolvent debtors.
The income arising from the land itself, the economic rent, they would be obliged to hand over as a free gift to the State.
He was a coaster and he was naturally cautious, as Apple-treers are obliged to be.
He has obliged her to give up all her jointure, so she has now no dependance.
Upon this we were obliged to get rid of them, which we did by discharging a gun.
Through many years Reynolds was very deaf, and was obliged to use an ear trumpet to aid him in general conversation.
The chapterhouse were obliged to remit half their rents from the farmers ruined by the war.
If you are obliged to use dead matter, such as chopped liver, or meat, be careful to remove any that may be left.
The projecting part of the first cuneiform bone which supports the great toe I was obliged to divide with a saw.
In accepting the advocacy of Warburton he was obliged to abandon his equivocal attitude, and disavow the deistical creed.
No man is obliged to give himself away in matters of this sort, and I am no scandalmonger.
You have only your time to lose, while I am obliged to disburse two thousand francs.
The orderly explained that all foreigners were obliged to be disinfected in this way.
Beybars, also, was now deserted by sellar, and he at length was obliged to resign.
Coutinho would listen to nothing, and Albuquerque was obliged to follow him.
Wilson, chafing under the delay, was obliged to admit to himself that it was best.
In Orange county, North Carolina, farmers were once obliged to suspend wheat-growing for two years on account of the chinch bug.
Dr. Dale, although suffering from cholic, was obliged to set forth, at once upon what he felt would be a bootless journey.
The only thing that detracted from her pleasure was to be obliged to concur in Cody's opinion.
The wind freshened in the afternoon, and a cross sea rose which obliged us to reef the sails, and made the boat very wet.
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