Congress, however, did not oblige itself to actually pass legislation and seems decidedly uninterested in the president's suggestions.
On 16 October, Miliband announced that the British government would legislate to oblige itself to cut greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050, rather than the 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions previously announced.
We learn from the Amsterdam museum's Web site that an Anne Frank School — like those being established all over the world — "obliges itself to stand up for freedom, justice, tolerance and human dignity and to resolutely turn against any form of aggression, discrimination, racism, political extremism and excessive nationalism".
Indeed, an honest look at itself would oblige the church to consider whether the zealous suppression of normal sexual curiosity may exacerbate the problem of sexual predation.
The story asks mildly for interpretation, then subsides for a while when you oblige -- generosity repays itself, the son is freed by honoring the father, even the most temporary art (in other words, the paper items) is necessary.
As if to oblige him, nature arranges itself in lovely, minimalist forms: a delicately sculptural ball of twigs in "Dried Grass (Chesapeake, Va., 1991)," gleaming circles of ice around bare stems meeting dark, mirror-smooth water in "Crystal Boundary Waterr, Minn., 1998)," stones in shades of white and gray positioned just so in a lake (Lake Superior, Minn., 1999).
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
But abroad, the Navy repeatedly found itself obliged to "butcher and bolt".
Gunn's found itself obliged to settle the case by making massive payouts to the people it had sued".
That creates the risk that a tech company could find itself obliged to make good any losses on a product it distributed.
Gazprom has said it will shed 100,000 jobs, a quarter of its workforce; and in May it was obliged to commit itself to firm performance criteria.
