Sentence examples for forced obligation from inspiring English sources

Learning is becoming an amusement instead of forced obligation.

The long-standing rage from which he stays disconnected distorts his perception: simple social responsibilities, such as breaking bread with members of Congress, become forced obligations that he must automatically resist.

The strategic defence review of 1998 remains the blueprint for defence organisation, but since then the armed forces' obligations have multiplied.

This is a Chinese-specific ethics obligation: forced by moral and relational pressures, emotional elements inevitably taint the case-filing procedure.

Often, governments can force such obligations on companies, through taxes and regulation.

It says that when a region does not meet its constitutional obligations or other laws, or goes against the general interest, the government "can adopt any measure needed to force those obligations to be met" once receiving approval from Spain's lower house.

Jack Nicholson plays a crass and rancorous billionaire, and Morgan Freeman an intellectual who was forced by family obligations to become an auto mechanic.

But work obligations forced the couple to scale the trip back to five days, so they ended up driving close to Presque Isle before heading out on a 260-mile meandering bike loop.

It has been suggested that Goldman's collateral calls on its trading positions with AIG in collateralized debt obligations forced the insurer over the brink.

In a statement released in the wake of the Guardian story, Microsoft said "legal obligations" forced it to work with the NSA and provide access to its services.

But contractual obligations "forced" Garner to follow-up what was a pretty big rom-com hit with the Daredevil spin-off Elektra.