Sentence examples for oblige itself to from inspiring English sources

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".

And if enough people listen to "The Concert for Bangladesh" album, the Administration will find itself obliged to listen to them.

If Italy follows a path that's anything like the one Grillo has mapped out for it -- or if civic unrest grows -- or if some European bank found itself obliged to admit to the true value of some whole new pile of nasties on its balance sheet -- then the euro is dead; but this is the currency against which the yen is devaluing.

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.

Thus discussion was obliged to limit itself to rather general remarks about the obviously wide exchange of goods, the most famous points of production or sale of given articles, techniques of banking, or commercial law.

Officials at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry MITII) say that Mitsubishi Electric was obliged to report to the government serious safety defects only if asked to do so by MITI itself.

Before the announcement in Quito, Britain had said the granting of asylum would make no difference to its position: it still considers itself obliged to arrest Assange and extradite him to face questioning in Sweden.

If America commits itself to carbon cuts, China will feel obliged to make some kind of promise too.Many see India as unhelpful by comparison.

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