Sentence examples for I obliged him from inspiring English sources
When the German invasion of Courland (July 1915) in World War I obliged him to leave Jelgava, Čakste moved to Petrograd, where he was one of the founders of the Latvian Refugees Committee, which, in addition to providing relief for war refugees, worked for Latvian autonomy.
It would be a few more years before I obliged him.
After years of complaining about his job at the insurance office, he finally worked up the nerve to mail his parents a letter saying that he was going to move to Berlin and write for a living — less than a week before the outbreak of World War I, which obliged him to stay in Prague.
I expected that he had come to ask some favor, more fodder or a new corral — he sometimes presumed on the intimacy of our long-ago hunts, and I often obliged him, out of sentimentality.
The City editor of the Daily Telegraph, Neil Collins, never lets me forget that I once obliged him to apologise in print to Norman Lamont for a story the then chancellor hotly denied to me, but which was afterwards found to be true.
That night the professor (excuse me, he doesn't like to be called that and I'll oblige him; few do) Scopes took a girl to a country dance and a couple of New York newspaper photographers sneaked out there and set off a flash that lit up a township.
I sought to recruit John Lennon, of the Beatles, for the project, but tax considerations obliged him to leave the country.
