Sentence examples for obliged to do something from inspiring English sources

He claims that it doesn't survive the test of instances; nobody thinks that their sense of obligation, when they feel obliged to do something, arises from their recognition that in so acting they will be originating something good.

His explanation of the difference between non-normative and normative assertions (between, as he put it, 'the assertion that someone was obliged to do something and the assertion that he had an obligation to do it') was merely that the latter sort of assertion is used to display a distinctive sort of attitude.

But Mr. Bremer was obliged to do something that looked very much like it.

Writer Chris Chibnall is obliged to do something different and, inevitably, to feel the critical heat.

After these job figures, Ben Bernanke is practically obliged to do something.

Meanwhile, Congress is obliged to do something, and soon, to develop a credible national strategy on global warming.

Going further on the gradient of intensity of the relation leads to, first, informal agreements and commitments and, second, to formal contracts where agents are obliged to do, or not to do, something.

However, he changed his mind about this in FE, where he argues (following Prichard 1932) that what we obliged to do is to set ourselves to do something rather than bring about a state of affairs (FE 108, 153 154, 160 161).

Uncoerced, people at leisure believe that they are doing something they are not disagreeably obliged to do.

The Filipino failed to declare his shoulder injury to the Nevada State Athletic Commission before the fight, something he was obliged to do.

But he did so under pressure, portraying his action as a courtesy to Congress, not something he was obliged to do.