Sentence examples for obliging things from inspiring English sources

She stayed with us for a time, and did obliging things for my mother, being, as she was, in her own eyes, a mendicant, and once, when she let fall a tray of good china cups and saucers, she knelt down and said, "I'll replace these," even though we knew she couldn't.

But that's why the UK EPSRC robotics retreat said tricking people into feeling obliged to things that don't actually need things is unethical.

Alternatively, he makes the suburbs do unsuburban things, obliging them to remember the harder rural history over which they have been comfortably laid.

The recent floods will make things worse, obliging the government to borrow some 12 billion koruna ($352m) for relief, pushing the budget further out of balance and weakening the currency still more.Czech politics, in turn, has turned rougher.

We see the same phenomenon over here: after every terrorist atrocity, there are unattributed "briefings" to obliging journalists on how things might have been better if surveillance powers had been more "robust", ie intrusive.

For the silver screen, however, the show's creator, Armando Iannucci, has felt obliged to big things up.

The last time I had seen George, he seemed doubtful about whether I could actually cook, so I felt obliged to set things straight.

While the President has been obliged to take things "easier" since his much-publicised humiliation, Dave has continued to be regularly pictured triumphantly pounding the streets of a morning with personal trainer Matt Roberts.

He had taken his basic training in the Marines under a tough corporal named Jack, who, among other things, obliged the men to share their food parcels with him.

I think the answer lies in the odd incentive system under which they operate -- they constantly feel obliged to do things that they believe will reduce their long-term performance.

He argues that, if Mr Sharon goes too far, America will be obliged to take things in hand, in order to prevent chaos.Small consolation, perhaps, but the alternative, as most Arabs see it, is for the Palestinian intifada to continue indefinitely, until its tragic toll at last convinces Israelis that Mr Sharon's promises were hollow.