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Discover Ludwig"bound to speak" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean that someone is obligated or compelled to speak, or that they have no choice but to do so. Example: My boss was bound to speak when the CEO asked him a question.
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He felt bound to speak.
This is why people not used to public speaking over-prepare; why, for instance, I know that the person who promises they are going to speak for five minutes at a memorial service are bound to speak for 10.
"By addressing the quality of a particular management practice, a defendant declares the subject of its representation to be material to the reasonable shareholder, and thus is bound to speak truthfully".
In the spring of 1850, having moved to Maine, where she followed the Congressional debates over a proposed new law that would deny fugitive slaves basic rights while imposing new penalties on anyone harboring them, she wrote to a magazine editor that "the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak".
If the U.S. leads the way, other countries are bound to speak out.
In the end, I am morally bound to speak only to the things that command my allegiance, and to which I have dedicated my life's work: the Republican Party, and more importantly, the United States of America.
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And the western left is surely duty-bound to speak out.
One reviewer on the Business Traveller Web site said the V-shaped configuration was "nice if you are traveling with someone, but does make you feel a bit more duty-bound to speak to the person next to you if you are on your own, as there is no privacy screen to divide you".
He hears echoes of that past in the rhetoric of today, and because of that, he feels duty-bound to speak out.
Sheikh Tayeb Mustapha Cham of the Taiba Welfare Foundation believes that religious leaders are duty-bound to speak out against FGM.
They are bound to be speaking in eye-glazing bureaucratic Esperanto, but they will be engaged in crucial negotiations aimed at making life fairer for poor countries' farmers, who are struggling haplessly against a rigged global trading system.
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