Sentence examples for obliged to recognize from inspiring English sources

A year later he was obliged to recognize the independence of the Visigothic kingdom centred near present Toulouse, Fr.

Or if not, as he explained this week, will he feel obliged to recognize himself as a Christian Buddhist?

Although states are not obliged to recognize new claimants to statehood, circumstances sometimes arise that make it a positive duty not to recognize a state.

Penn rails against the idea that he is under some obligation to discover El Chapo's soullessness, which he rejects: "Soullessness … wasn't it that that my moral conditioning was obliged to recognize in him?

Just so, aren't we obliged to recognize that it is possible to be opposed to basic tenets of Islam and/or to historically embedded realizations of Islam in contemporary nations without therefore being tarred with the label of Islamophobe?

A provincial court has ruled that the Ontario government is obliged to recognize the right of gays and lesbians to marry people of their own gender, a decision that was hailed by gay rights advocates as a major legal victory that would have national consequences.

No other book of mine carries behind it anything resembling this caboose, but I felt obliged here to recognize where authentic lives and events are clearly bent to my fictional purposes.

The Darién Gap, he said, had existed as almost a myth to him — something that suited his youthful philosophy of self-reliant anarchy, of a life that "obliges us to recognize that we are animals, another element of the ecosystem".

The Darién Gap, he said, had existed as almost a myth to him something that suited his youthful philosophy of self-reliant anarchy, of a life that "obliges us to recognize that we are animals, another element of the ecosystem".

As these notions are not widely recognized, we feel obliged to offer some parameters by which similar notions could be better differentiated.

In each, the solution involves recognizing that your opponent is obliged to make a move on his turn, even if he has only bad options.