Sentence examples for merely obliged from inspiring English sources

Having cleared his name in Southwark Crown Court, Harry Redknapp is now merely obliged to justify the belief that he may well be the saviour of England's national team, which is once again in a dock of its own on a charge of chronic dysfunction and with any number of cases to be taken into consideration.

This, some lament, has spelled the end of "Montanabahn".When the federal government stopped requiring every state to have a speed limit, in 1995, Montana settled for a "basic rule", which merely obliged motorists to drive in "a reasonable and prudent manner" based on traffic, road and weather conditions.

Protections for "subsidiarity"—ensuring that issues are dealt with at the most appropriate level are weak at best, non-existent at worst: national parliaments are invited to speak up if they think subsidiarity has been flouted, but the European Commission is merely obliged to take note.

The press and funders merely obliged.

The labour and environment side accords never amounted to much, merely obliging each NAFTA country to respect its own laws.

It makes the police look as if they were merely obliging a community in need of their protection, not initiating a commando raid based on a tip from a shady source and what looks to have been no corroborating investigation at all.

It took the pith out of the twilight days of the Raj, making them seem rather jolly: the effete limeys were desperate not to be sent to the front line while the Indians – Char Wallah Muhammad, Punka Wallah Rumzan and a blacked-up Michael Bates as bearer Rangi Ram – merely obliging underlings sporting cheerful grins that, even when I was a boy, made me cringe.

The newly evicted are not merely free but obliged to move.

If, say, only £700m of the £1bn arrived, Coupe, or more likely his successor, would merely be obliged to be embarrassed.

Once you find Mas, you find out that it is unusually welcoming: as you step through the door, servers smile widely, communicating the feeling of being genuinely happy -- as opposed to merely professionally obliged -- to play host to you.

But whether all those lecturers, readers, and professors suddenly want to treat me as an equal out of respect, or merely feel obliged to do so, is open to debate.