Sentence examples for may be obligate from inspiring English sources
Parthenogenic species may be obligate (that is, incapable of sexual reproduction) or facultative (that is, capable of switching between parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction depending upon environmental conditions).
They may be obligate parasites depending on host connection throughout their entire life-time, or they may be facultative parasites being able to live part of their life independent of a host.
We may be obligated to sort out which is which.
Because of these clauses, some tenants may be obligated to honor leases for office space that may not be rebuilt for years, if at all.
"If it turns out that she is responsible for the repair," he said, "the carrier may be obligated to pay for it".
"We said that we may be obligated, or that things can push us to run for the Presidency," Bayoumi told me.
Thus, he said, a buyer may be obligated to take title to an apartment while parts of the building are still under construction.
The US gives around $1.25 billion in US aid and military aid to Egypt, which they may be obligated to cut back on if the events are a defined as a military coup.
President Bush may be obligated to provide quid pro quos to those people who contributed to his election campaign, and he cannot be faulted for delivering when that is how the political system works.
If authorities are unable to confirm a parent-child relationship, they may be obligated to place the child in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to the DHS statement.
Such investigation will likely signal to outside co-inventors, and the firms to which they may be obligated to assign their inventions, that the firm views the technology as valuable.
