Sentence examples for obligatory way from inspiring English sources

PARIS — There was a time when Paris was an obligatory way station for aspiring foreign writers on the Grand Tour through Europe as they strove to burnish their reputations as cosmopolitan sophisticates.

From the insufficiency of a single line of cocaine ("It leaves you like a Christ held up by only one nail") to the way tourists have "the annoying habit of greeting other tourists in the same obligatory way as soldiers greet other soldiers," we get a jaded point of view inventive enough to be worth peering through.

To have radiologists subspecialized in specific fields is an obligatory way to answer clinical needs, to maintain our central role in multidisciplinary teams, and last but not least, to guide both experimental and clinical research.

People are hospitable and courteous, but not in the obligatory way that I think we Americans can be.

When the host arrived for the writers' meeting we brought up the story, in an obligatory way, as penny ante bullshit based on nothing.

In Kant's ethics of belief, the soul's immortality and God's existence (and also, just as significantly, God's non-existence) are propositional targets that are impossible-to-believe-epistemically and also impossible-to-know-scientifically, yet at the same time they specify certain morally obligatory ways of living one's life as a rational human agent.

This question allows for the possibility that only certain elements of the grateful response may be obligatory, the way promise-keeping is; and it does not obscure the fact that the source or root of such obligations would be a benefactor's beneficence.

His late view cannot, however, be categorized as anti-supererogationist since he does not deny the special moral value of saintly and heroic actions which are by no way obligatory.

Making antenatal care attendance by men obligatory is a way of ensuring greater rates of MI in maternal health services in general [ 72].

Obligatory resourcefulness has given way to revolutionary thoughts.

Everybody went through the buffet line, everybody ordered iced tea and everybody picked up the obligatory toothpick on the way out.