And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew. |
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The nun, who had observed me heedfully, asked me, in an obliging tone, why I was so much afflicted. |
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This is where the Beeb had a less obliging audience for fielding its questions. |
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Tommie was regarded among all who knew him as a very decent and obliging man. |
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In a measure clearly aimed at Lauderdale, Parliament passed an act obliging all office holders to denounce the Covenants. |
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A cheerful and obliging man, his ready smile was a true indication of his gentle character. |
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Next the hardware store behind the clock-tower, a veritable Aladdin's cave, always very helpful and obliging. |
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In addition, this obliging plant seeds itself freely, so the number of clumps will gradually increase over the years. |
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However, the pleasant and obliging staff willingly produced a jug of hot water. |
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Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years. |
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He took up the job as caretaker of Mount Sion Secondary School, and his obliging manner made him very popular with teachers and pupils alike. |
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The very happy and obliging young service ladies were resplendent in snappy white shorts and tops. |
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By the age of five her mother was happy to hand over the little girl's care whenever she could to an obliging friend. |
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Most obliging and affable we wish him a good finish to the handballing year. |
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So the little chap, helped by his obliging Washington buddies, is up to his old tricks again. |
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The enemy is being very obliging by saving them the journey and coming to them now. |
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I have had my back waxed once before, in an experimental fashion, by an obliging female friend. |
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Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position. |
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He tried to use it on an obliging cow named Amica, but she hightailed it, and the rest of the herd followed her. |
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Despite the introduction 20 years ago of the law obliging front-seat occupants of a vehicle to wear a seatbelt, around 15 per cent of passengers still fail to belt up. |
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I hear some obliging misconceiver of my meaning hastening to cry. |
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Brown expressed the hope that the obliging spirit of the brunch would somehow infuse Washington as a whole. |
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The obliging stylist agreed to re-do her calamitous colouring, despite fears that her hair could be damaged by too much colour so soon after the disaster. |
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Despite relying on the well-to-do for commissions, he was no obliging sycophant and depicted the character of his sitter as he perceived it. |
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He was fascinated by behavioural patterns and society's obedience to authority and New Yorkers were doubtless delighted when his research revealed them to be so obliging. |
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A very pleasant and obliging man, he gained the popularity of everybody. |
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By obliging aspirant doctors to take two university degrees, the state would effectively ensure that a medical career is open only to the sons and daughters of the wealthy. |
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When I started drinking wine as a young man, quite a long time ago, I used to buy cheap Beaujolais from very obliging wine shops in London's cosmopolitan quarter, Soho. |
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He was not frightened to help people out and was a very obliging fellow. |
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The staff of the school have been very obliging and friendly. |
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The Directive will also help to reduce deaths and serious injuries in coach and minibus accidents by obliging the use of safety belts. |
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Would she have been so obliging to a bloke in a donkey jacket? |
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On his stay in San Francisco, Casals injures his left hand on an outing to Mount Tamalpais, obliging him to abandon the tour. |
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They boost their own expenses and expand their empires and then, when they discover that they cannot deliver services, they turn to the obliging taxpayer. |
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Journalists are becoming too obliging and are forgetting to put their finger there where it hurts. |
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Meanwhile the rocket fire continues, though sporadically, regularly obliging the Heyl Ha'Avir to act. |
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It is staffed by the most amiable and strenuously obliging bunch of cosmopolitan youngsters who appear not to have been corrupted by working in hotel chains. |
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He takes a risk because he thinks he can get away with it because the facts may well turn out to support his editor's desire and he wants a quiet life and to be obliging. |
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Her gentle, good humoured and obliging nature, mild manner and unassuming disposition commended her to all fortunate enough to make her acquaintance. |
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The full amount of the estimated obligation is recognized at the moment the obliging event occurs. |
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Located in Central Atlas, the Aït Bougmez valley is submit to severe climatical constraints obliging irrigation from water springs during summer. |
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Typically in a robot film, the script eventually calls for the obliging machine to override its software program and run amok, wreaking vengeance on its masters. |
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In that connection he relied on the provision of Rule 13 obliging the returning officer to eliminate the lowest candidate and distribute his votes. |
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Ever obliging, Springsteen then flexed all the right things on a paddle board. |
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He was the salt of the earth, a man who was very obliging and very quiet. |
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At the three-hour-mark, the hitherto obliging Lanzmann finally becomes irritated. |
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The first year had been full, obliging him to join the second year with classmates a year his senior. |
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The image of the tremendous fall emerges again in the clean inclined cut of the boundary walls of the church constricting the internal space and obliging it to widen out towards the sky through the skylight-roof. |
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The French Government will put through a bill regulating the right to strike in nationalized industries, such as all the public transport and obliging the workers to give advance notice of an intended stoppage. |
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What is particularly important is the strong support given to obliging the Commission to lose no time in ensuring that a common standard for digital TV receivers and set-top boxes is approved. |
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Such protection should be ensured by obliging the person who acquired control of a company to make a bid to all holders of securities for all of their holdings. |
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If an obliging date of delivery or an obliging term of delivery is crossed, the salesclerk is behind already with cross of the date of delivery or the term of delivery. |
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I wholeheartedly support the drive for improved compensation for national road traffic accidents, by obliging insurers to provide either an offer or a refusal of compensation within three months of receiving a claim. |
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The Bolkestein directive obliging our service companies either to relocate or to shut up shop prefigures what that Europe will be: anti-social because it is anti-national. |
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Under the JASIG, the GRP undertook to issue upon request regular passports to NDF duly accredited personnel without obliging them to take an oath of allegiance to the government. |
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The concept of licensing competitors in the universal service area can be combined with requirements obliging such licensees to contribute to the provision of universal service. |
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They remain avid theatre-goers, even in the provinces, and despite the obliging efforts of TV Nova to supply lowbrow fare enthusiasts for opera and classical music, for which tickets are still partly state-subsidised. |
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The nuclear issue is so singular in nature, requires such specialized skills, that it ends up bringing together the adversaries and transcending their differences by obliging them to speak the same language. |
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The landline was mewling again in the kitchen, obliging Pell Munnelly, woke now for good, to climb from the cozy rut of her bed and pad downstairs in bare feet. |
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Indeed, certain third parties can usurp the identity of the addressee or an obliging server can close the eyes on the fact that only a third party is present and ask him to sign in the place of the addressee. |
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Well, you evidently know something about it,' said Harry Doncaster, his first instinct of resentment appeased as he found his obliging friend really as well informed as he pretended to be. |
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The purpose of the rules against unfair competition is to protect fair competition by obliging all participants to play the game by the same rules. |
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Against Portugal on Sunday, his players showed a similar self-belief – playing their own game and obliging their opponents to adjust their schemes rather than the other way around. |
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Our plans include obliging banks to provide information about companies automatically to HMRC, and abolishing the rule that allows non-domiciled residents not to pay tax on foreign income. |
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Despite signing many human-rights treaties obliging it to do so, the United States has not passed domestic laws that open the way to criminal prosecutions for human-rights abuses abroad. |
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Mr. BISSCHOP rejected this amendment because he saw there a risk of obliging the holder of an intellectual property right to pursue everyone engaged in the commission of the infringement. |
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Likewise, obliging purchasing agencies to obtain their imports only from a limited number of designated countries was not in conformity with the principle of non-discrimination embodied in the MFN rule. |
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These international conventions can be interpreted as obliging signatories to ensure access to appropriate medical care unless they can justify otherwise. |
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This directive should also contain a provision obliging the Member States to have legislation on the restoration of those locations which have been used for mining operations. |
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There is strong opposition against obliging service providers to collect, maintain or guarantee the accuracy of subscriber information beyond that needed for their own business purposes. |
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Yet it is the lure of profit that is the primary source of all the political and media tumult now obliging the Canadian House of Commons to come to a decision on the bill. |
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First a system obliging customs authorities to hold goods. |
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It must be understood that a minimum sentence can occasionally, but still significantly, be a provision obliging a judge to commit an injustice even though he is satisfied after hearing the case that the sentence is unjust. |
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As a reaction, the government adopted a new decree obliging workers to pay their employers 3 months salary in compensation if their strike is deemed illegal. |
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Demand for carbon credits results from international and national regulations obliging economic players to cut greenhouse gas emissions as well as others who want to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. |
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As the next section makes clear, governments are beginning to raise human rights law arguments-thus obliging arbitrators to consider their relevance and import. |
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Here is now an additional interaction with government, this one obliging her to register her rifle and pay a licence fee in exchange for the intangible service of greater personal security, for her as well as others. |
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This ensured that the regulations became part of the acquis communautaire before the new members joined, obliging them to accept the regulation. |
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As only small numbers of Boii were left after the battle, the Aedui were obliging. |
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By the sound of it, the ever obliging Agent Barrett didn't really feel like obliging. Else he was too sleep-drunk to string two rational thoughts together. |
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Keppie suggests that it was the legion's absence elsewhere that encouraged a native uprising, obliging Hadrian to send the Legio VI Victrix to Britain. |
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