Sentence examples for once obliged from inspiring English sources

He had once obliged me by vacationing at a macrobiotic spa in Mexico for an entire week.

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — My husband was once obliged to attend a team-building workshop with his colleagues that involved watching hours of Riverdance.

Many small towns survive around the east and northeast coast that were once obliged to be self-contained in consumer industries and burghal institutions because they lacked adequate transportation systems.

The films in this Lionsgate collection are not among Ms. Bardot's most celebrated or successful works, but represent instead the kind of day-in, day-out work that movie stars were once obliged to pursue to keep their names before the public.

Hystopia, about a parallel America during the Vietnam war, exhibits a level of conceptual and stylistic density that British novelists seldom hazard; it flies the flag on this year's longlist for the kind of maximalist aesthetic the judges were once obliged to ignore.

The City editor of the Daily Telegraph, Neil Collins, never lets me forget that I once obliged him to apologise in print to Norman Lamont for a story the then chancellor hotly denied to me, but which was afterwards found to be true.

You know how it is; you meet someone once, feel obliged to accept their friend request and then have to put up with their dreadful status updates and pictures of their holidays forever more.

While Andre Villas-Boas reluctantly agreed that his club may not resolve their dealings until the window closes on 2 September (and they have, relatively speaking, made more than most having signed France midfielder Etienne Capoue) Moyes was once again obliged to confirm that Manchester United are in the market for big names.

I had never heard of this happening before in real life or fiction and didn't really know what was going on, but once again obliged.

Several of the clinicians did note, however, that the politics of engagement in which doctors who are gay once felt obliged to get involved no longer apply, opening up new questions about the dynamics between sexual identity and choice of specialisation in general practice medicine.

You will be required to make a donation to the cause, though it can be for as much or as little as you wish, and you are only obliged to donate once.