Sentence examples for could not oblige from inspiring English sources

Mr Prodi could not oblige.

Just one laugh would have been something, but Sikowitz could not oblige us even that.

The government could not oblige all schools to take account of the local labour market, for example, and schools could pay qualified teachers at a significantly reduced rate.

Seniors such as left-half Waseem Ahmad and Sohail Abbas, who holds the world record for most goals in an international competition, are both missing after making demands for preferential treatment the management could not oblige.

Despite Martin Wolf's bracing moralising that the British government, and people, need to face up to the brutal realities of our situation, that the nation "must rescue itself", his only reason, in this regard, for not joining the eurozone is because it is explicitly not a fiscal union and therefore we could not oblige our partners to bail us out.

Another requested some Van Halen (I challenged him to produce sheet music, but he couldn't oblige).

Salle said he'd be glad to go to the Freud show, but couldn't oblige me with my set piece, since he didn't hate Freud's work — he admired it, and had even "quoted" from it in his own work.

Since equity markets might not oblige, that could require the government to stump up even more of its own cash to recapitalise the banks directly.Despite its flaws, the NAMA plan seems like an advance over those in some countries at least it gets something done.

A sincere pacifist could not be obliged to kill.

In 1516, the Venetian Republic granted Jews the right to settle, under strict conditions, on the site of a former geto, or iron foundry, a word whose soft "g" the German-speaking Ashkenazim could not pronounce, obliging orthographers to adopt the spelling we have today.

The world should not oblige.