Sentence examples for it felt obliged from inspiring English sources

It felt obliged to tell shareholders that the rich world was its "backbone" and by 2000 it too had made a huge American acquisition, of Bestfoods.Rising exposureThe emerging world's troubles are not as bad as in 1997-98.

Its more acute problem is that it suffered more than any of its competitors from the horse-meat scandal, so much so that it felt obliged to distribute leaflets and take out humiliating full-page newspaper adverts, apologising for its poor performance and pledging to do better.

New Labour was so afraid of its own shadow that – having won the centre ground and gained power – it felt obliged to go along with the latest neoliberal notions, however daft.

Then it felt obliged to add sex when crotchety congressman Howard Smith of Virginia introduced it as an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under the wildly mistaken impression that this would kill the whole exercise.

They may get a second wind because of tactical mistakes the current regime has made in its tax reforms: It raised excise taxes and various VAT levies because it felt obliged to match the revenues that would allegedly be lost by moving to a flat tax.

Finally, however, it felt obliged "to attempt an enterprise from which others shrank".

Apparently it feels obliged by its principles of good governance to transact all its aid at the official rate, at times inadvertently handing most of its aid to the central bank.

Partially out of respect and partially because it was so good, I felt obliged a bit to try to find a way to make it work and put it in the marketplace".

By the way, the reason the government wants to be only a minority investor in the new bank is that - with the public finances mending at snail's pace - it feels obliged to limit the exposure that appears on its own balance sheet to £1bn, not the multiple which may be provided to companies in the form of finance.

Another asked me who we were and what we were doing, and when I explained it was a protest I felt obliged to reassure her of our peaceful intentions.

John Lewis has entered the fray because it feels obliged to, always promising to be "never knowingly undersold".