In addition to financing their own campaigns, senators participate at least once a week in the Power Hour, during which they make obligatory calls on behalf of the Party (in the Democrats' case, from a three-story town house across Constitution Avenue from the Senate office buildings, since they're barred from using their own offices to raise money).
But on this trip, when I found that my cellular phone didn't work because of the hotel's location in a canyon, I figured I'd just make the obligatory calls and make them short: no more than five or six a day, and the local calls I needed to make for reservations and the like.
After the obligatory comment call to Woods, Pecker received a phone call from Mark Steinberg, Woods's agent.
There was the deathbed confession, the last rites, the pallbearers, the obligatory altar call, the burial ceremony, the stone, the angels-and-harps imagery.
When Mr. McCain lost South Carolina, he at first refused to place the obligatory telephone call of congratulations to Mr. Bush, instructing a senior adviser, John Weaver, to do it, before finally taking the telephone and speaking to Mr. Bush, witnesses said.
O'Neal himself boasts the almost obligatory roll-call of bit parts in films himself, though Scary Movie 4, Freddy Got Fingered and Blue Chips never garnered gushing reviews from Roger Ebert.
(FYI, I would love to take care of the day's obligatory phone calls in the shower).
It is to counter this disparity that Islam instructs believers to pay obligatory alms called the Zakat.
This was clearly set up by the producers despite the obligatory "Terry calls Brooks from the limo" scene, but Vicki seems genuinely shocked.
