Sentence examples for is being obliged from inspiring English sources

"My idea of hell is being obliged to have something to say about everything that comes around.

If a powerful 80-year-old magnate chooses not to answer a question for 50 seconds is it because he is hopelessly out of his depth or because his contempt for the charade he is being obliged to tolerate means he will take as long as he likes before he offers a monosyllable or two?

Now France, followed by a still more reluctant Germany, is being obliged to take defense seriously for the first time in many years, thus upsetting all its budget calculations.

Being referred to a hospital in Belgium is being obliged to conform to the normative way of giving birth.

A spokesman for the BBC, which is is obliged to ensure its collection arrangements are efficient, appropriate and proportionate, said it hoped the review would be thorough and "not rushed".

Now they're being obliged by the Dukes, who know how to kill with generosity.

If VCs are being obliged to spend their money to keep existing investments going, doesn't that mean that new entrepreneurs can forget it, at least for a while?

"All over England, schools are being obliged to become academies: supposedly autonomous bodies which are often "sponsored" (the government's euphemism for controlled) by foundations established by exceedingly rich men.

On issue after issue — health care, immigration, abortion, tax cuts, gun control, environmental protection — he's been obliged to veer to the right.

For their part, the men are discomforted only by being obliged to wear stiff collars.

For the UN, admitting that they are refugees would mean being obliged to look after them.