Sentence examples for constantly obliged from inspiring English sources

He hesitated at first to admit Mr. Dallek to the archive, in part because Mr. Sorensen, like every Kennedy insider, was constantly obliged to refute rumors of the president's health problems.

While Jainism enjoins observance of total nonviolence by the ascetics, it is often argued that the man is constantly obliged to engage in destructive activities of eating, drinking, breathing and surviving in order to support his body.

I think the answer lies in the odd incentive system under which they operate -- they constantly feel obliged to do things that they believe will reduce their long-term performance.

Not only is this arrangement bad for women; I don't think it's necessarily good for children either – being hovered over constantly and obliged to serve the emotional needs of an adult who has blocked herself from normal adult modes of pleasure and accomplishment.

Maggie Service, the guest in the family and the sloppy wench among the buttoned-up, is trying to keep a lid on it, but since she must "stand to tell a joke", is obliged constantly to spring to her feet with an explosive utterance.

It is looking into how people influence their own feelings and those of other people, from parents with their children to the way couples interact, to the effects on someone obliged constantly to wish customers "have a nice day" when they don't really mean it.

Fashion is obliged to constantly reinvent itself, so that everything eventually comes back in vogue, and it seems the same can be said of good old-fashioned misogyny.

Analyses revealed that the fear-addled grasshoppers ended up with a higher carbon-to-nitrogen ratio in their bodies than the presumably stress-free insects raised without spiders -- largely because their constantly amped-up metabolism obliged them to burn nitrogen-bearing protein to generate energy-providing glucose.

In sensible cycling cultures like the Netherlands, riders are generally free to pootle about in relative safety, not obliged to be constantly aware of the next potential, looming hazard.

At the same time, he counsels that the same arguments used to deprive women of their rights could easily be used against laborers—"anyone who was obliged to work constantly and could therefore neither become enlightened nor exercise his reason.

In many cases, women tend to be more susceptible to secondhand stress, feeling obliged to be constantly available to care for people and to soothe other's pain.