Sentence examples for obliged to back from inspiring English sources

He is probably obliged to back one of the proposals since the hedge funds who dominate the shareholder register may demand an exit.

In a key battle in rural Yamagata, where JA was backing an independent politician, Yasue Funayama, against the LDP's less-experienced candidate, Mizuho Onuma, who had been obliged to back joining talks on TPP, Ms Onuma won.

Germany usually feels obliged to back Israel, but Mrs Merkel was disappointed by Mr Netanyahu's half-hearted peace efforts and his tattling to the Israeli press about matters she had told him in confidence.Yet the appearance of a more assertive German diplomacy is deceptive.

Anyone who believes that his defeat at Doncaster was an aberration, or perhaps the result of an ill-judged ride by Joseph O'Brien, the son of Camelot's trainer, Aidan, is all but obliged to back him on Sunday afternoon Had he edged home at Doncaster, after all, or been sent straight to Paris after his win in the Irish Derby, he would be closer to even money than 7-2.

Although the bill currently says a judge has to agree with a minister's decision to order a secret session, critics claim that the judge would in reality have little discretion and would be obliged to back the decision in most cases.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been obliged to back away from his claim that it was a Palestinian leader, rather than Adolph Hitler, who came up with the idea of exterminating the Jews.

In subsequent years, the company would be obliged to go back and check how well its estimates had measured up to reality, much as governments go back and revise GDP estimates.

"So Hamas feels obliged to answer back.

As it was, he felt obliged to strike back.

"Is it one of those prizes that you're obliged to give back to science," Evan Davis asked Hardy on Newsnight.

"Germany kept reiterating its position, which was that according to international law, Russia was obliged to give back cultural valuables.