Sentence examples for generally oblige from inspiring English sources

Candidates and presidents generally oblige them, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney included.

Most cameras in the city are private — installed by businesses or homeowners — and when the police request footage the owners generally oblige.

But while a cable system must generally oblige all of the local broadcasters that demand carriage, a local station is not obliged to give its signal to the cable operator.

Then, the Europeans generally obliged.

And they have generally obliged.

As he has yet to find anyone who shares it, he is generally obliged to be patronising.

However, it seems that the elected, but not yet consecrated, bishops who were appointed cardinals were generally obliged to resign their sees.

But there is a substantial difference between affirming that officials under certain circumstances may legitimately defy a particular judicial decision and affirming that they are not generally obliged to adhere to judicial determinations that acts of government are unconstitutional.

It might therefore be assumed that grandparents are generally obliged not to contest custody of grandchildren where the other party to the conflict is their own child.

When pollsters ask people for their opinion about an issue, people generally feel obliged to have one.

Thomas accepted these often flimsy narratives as a form of apology; in his limited experience, beautiful women did not generally feel obliged to make excuses.