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.
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.
The latter feature would better represent the user behavior when not obliged to showup at work.
The press and funders merely obliged.
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 labour and environment side accords never amounted to much, merely obliging each NAFTA country to respect its own laws.
I think there comes a moment when you are obliged to have projects, obliged to have new things.
I draw when I'm obliged to draw.
He obliged when the palm reader offered to read his hand, and sat down with him.
Manuel had his revenge in 1159 when Reginald was obliged to acknowledge himself as his vassal.
