Sentence examples for more obliged from inspiring English sources

As a former colonial power, she said, France is "more obliged to a certain reserve — we don't want to pour oil on a fire, but to help as far as possible a friendly people, but without interfering".

As the former colonial power, she said, France is "more obliged to a certain reserve — we don't want to pour oil on a fire, but to help as far as possible a friendly people, but without interfering".

Since the demonstrations of will that were crucial to the policy-were not forthcoming from the country, he apparently felt all the more obliged to make it clear to the world that his own will, at least, was firm.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump's election to defend the liberal international order.

"In my younger days, needing a job and needing work, and needing whatever I needed to be needy about, I would be more obliged to be within the decorum of the norm," he said.

Katrina, an accountant, says it has been hard to get used to using someone else's things after time in her own home, and that she feels much more obliged to wash up quickly and be tidy.

It really was a concert about an album, and not much more: obliging the nostalgic impulse for a sold-out crowd, giving the catalog a watering.

It is rare to see a koala, although rock wallabies and goannas are more obliging.

With the nation's ability to borrow money soon to lapse, Republicans and Democrats alike said the shutdown that has idled an estimated 800,000 federal workers could last for two weeks or more, obliging a divided government to grapple with both issues at the same time.

Unless of course you are Brian Taylor, who more and more feels obliged to give us something of himself.

In person, he was more obliging.