Sentence examples for obliged to observe from inspiring English sources

He was also a Hollywood filmmaker, of course, and obliged to observe a different decorum.

There is a taboo that left-leaning critics of popular culture are obliged to observe: never criticize the populace.

In comparison, West German anglers were obliged to observe a nighttime ban, were restricted to certain waters and viewed fishing as more of an ecological than competitive pursuit.

Archbishop Colloredo, a progressive churchman, discouraged lavish music and set a severe time limit on mass settings, which Mozart objected to but was obliged to observe.

The members of this faction taught that Christian converts were obliged to observe circumcision and other prescriptions of the Mosaic Law.

But with the community generally sweeping its own streets, she added, drivers are not obliged to observe the city's alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules.

BP felt obliged to note this officially.

We are obliged to follow the constitution".

There were so many chartered airplanes over the Flying Enterprise during one day that the British Ministry of Civil Aviation felt obliged to instruct them to observe a counter-clockwise circuit in flying over the ship.

In ancient Buddhism, lay persons were encouraged, but not obliged, to commit themselves to observe these Five Precepts of morality.

They had signed a contract that obliged them to observe complete silence; to fast on green tea and water; to sleep on the hard floor of an old barn; and to submit to her discipline, which is partly that of a guru, partly of a drill sergeant.