Sentence examples for is obliged to wait from inspiring English sources
The council will indeed have a chance to respond to any Iraqi obstruction, but if it dithers, neither America nor anyone else is obliged to wait for its formal go-ahead before force can be used.
5: according to my wife, this is the length of time, in minutes, that one is obliged to wait before talking unguardedly about someone who has just left your house.
As DVD has grown, cassettes and discs of most movies arrive on the same day, but when it comes to some big titles, the new format is obliged to wait a while for its big cousin the cassette to complete its early rental rush.
Most are obliged to wait here for months; some end up staying for years.
Basically we are obliged to wait for an official response from the state".
Under terms of the deal it struck with Mr. Buffett when market mayhem was breaking loose, G.E. was obliged to wait three years to call the bonds.
Outside the hospital, patients were obliged to wait in a makeshift tent, sprawled on sheets of cardboard, sometimes for two days.
I'm obliged to wait after class to explain to the Reverend JB Lawton why I haven't done my French homework.
Shame he has been obliged to wait until no one was watching to see off a couple of Aussies 6-3, 6-3.
In the end, Clemenceau was obliged to wait until Monet's death in December 1926 before he could bustle the waterlilies into the Orangerie.
If Intel had been obliged to wait months until the gear had passed muster, its bosses told the country's president, Dmitry Medvedev, it would have had to fire 200 Russian engineers.The cables will doubtless yield more such anecdotes.
