Sentence examples for less obliged from inspiring English sources

The showdown is a sign that corporate Japan feels less obliged to follow bureaucratic rulings than in years past.

The Obama Administration was more or less obliged to appeal, given that a law on the books was in question.

It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art market activity and more concerned with polemics.

His critics (and even some of his friends) had always imagined a Howard Beale ending for Keith Olbermann, and in his MSNBC farewell Olbermann more or less obliged.

Obama, facing the deepest slump since the nineteen-thirties, was more or less obliged to make the case for government activism and government programs.

Von Kempelen was more or less obliged to send it on the road, where, Mr. Standage says, it won 98percentt of the time.

Voters elsewhere are less obliging.

Although the Palace Museum in Beijing — where "Fuchun Mountains" was displayed before the Nationalists carted it away — lent its Taiwanese counterpart 12 items for the exhibit, the curators in Taipei have been less obliging.

To produce these pictures, Drummond uses still photography never the shaggier, less-obliging video and then heavily photoshops them so that every subject, from her kids to the cows grazing in her pastures, looks alluring, lush, sherbet-hued ("like dessert," I previously wrote).

To produce these pictures, Drummond uses still photography — never the shaggier, less-obliging video — and then heavily photoshops them so that every subject, from her kids to the cows grazing in her pastures, looks alluring, lush, sherbet-hued ("like dessert," I previously wrote).

Sadly, the world outside the Savoy was less obliging to a lord on the make.