Descartes starts his Passions of the Soul (1649) by lamenting the sorry state of ancient writings on the passions, and declaring that "I shall be obliged to write just as if I were considering a topic that no one had dealt with before me" (AT XI 328, CSM I 328).
He would be gone for two months and would then be obliged to write another exam.
Brashares, who left the company in 2001, is obliged to write two more books with Alloy.
I am obliged to write about the same topic, and it will be a test of will for me to resist borrowing some of her phrases.
We communicated by letter, which we were obliged to write on a Sunday – the rumour being that the housemistress read and censored them all.
Each writer was obliged to write at least one script for Sony over four years and could pass on a maximum of four projects Sony offered.
He took up that job within weeks of the Russian default in August 1998, and was obliged to write off a series of bad Russian debts.
Because the document was still classified, anything Eisenberg wrote about its contents would become "derivatively classified," so he was obliged to write his brief under supervision — not of the court but of the Litigation Security Section of the Justice Department, his adversary.
In the letter that Mr King was obliged to write to George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, to explain why inflation was still above target, he noted the "real differences of view" on the committee.
As such, he was obliged to write editorials on a variety of social and economic issues, ranging from the housing of the Berlin poor and the theft by peasants of wood from the forests to the new phenomenon of communism.
In a later scene, Ackerley wanted to write that, after a tryst, the young man "put on his clothes to go," but was obliged to write instead that the man "put on his coat to go".
