Sentence examples for oblige from from inspiring English sources

The spectacle seemed a gesture of noblesse oblige from King Mammon to the non-collector masses, or else a potlatch bonfire of profits that accrue to the Frieze folks, from facilitating intercourse between art and money.

If you want your breakfast more traditionally Scottish, there are countless cafes and pubs that will oblige, from the diner-ish Favorit (30 Leven Street, 19 Teviot Place), with two branches in the more studenty areas of town, to the nicely quirky Spoon (15 Blackfriars Street).

Another fine Reid delivery saw Henderson oblige from close range to level the scores.

He obliged from 10 metres in near the 22.

Obliging from beneath their makeup, the effect seems to give the photographer his desired pose.

I only sing out of tune, and anyway I play the violin," he replied when Malcolm McLaren tentatively inquired whether he might like to be the Sex Pistols' frontman – and got progressively less obliging from there.

Those who have long branded Blair as Bliar will seize on this sentence: "Politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it, and even distort it... .. Blair's most powerful point is that no peace process can succeed without "grip".

Perhaps he will reflect upon the fact that if he weren't quite so lucky — if he were poorer and darker of skin, and if he had been obliged from the start to seek his treatment under the tender auspices of the criminal-justice system — he would already have had his third strike.

That came after Carlisle's David Amoo hit the inside of the post before the break, but on the hour the game looked safe as Bradley Inman's cross bobbled to Mesca who obliged from close-range.

As a state-subsidised theatre, the Opéra-Comique was obliged from time to time to stage the works of Prix de Rome laureates, and La guzla duly went into rehearsal in 1863.

But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.