Sentence examples for seems obliged from inspiring English sources

So bad is the news from just about everywhere that music seems obliged to rise above it.

Being tied at the hip with Universal Studios by the Seagram stake may have something to do with why Diller seems obliged to keep one foot in Hollywood.

(His breakout role, as most accounts seem obliged to point out, was as a character named Deputy Nincompoop).

At the very least, he would now seem obliged to begin regulating greenhouse gases, at least from vehicles.

But a country going on its 15th year of war would seem obliged to use every tool at hand for making sense of its situation.

As Offutt (2002) points out, since farm households are demonstrably diverse, analysts would seem obliged to investigate hypotheses about differential response and impact.

In fact, it's pretty much impossible to mention the word "communism" in mainstream media debates without immediately being sucked into a discussion of the gulags – even sympathetic commentators seem obliged to cover that ground.

George Heath, editor of The Numismatist discussed the new pieces: "the mechanical work is all that could be desired, and it is probable that owing to the conventional rut in which our mint authorities seem obliged to keep, this is the best that could be done".

Politicians, it seems, feel obliged to genuflect before the altar of cancer, so it's not surprising that the government has made strenuous efforts to cast itself as a defender of cancer patients.

It keeps doing the things lesser talents signed in the wake of the Chemical Brothers and Leftfield's success seemed contractually obliged to do.

We know that she's 17 years old because the X Factor judges seem contractually obliged to remind us of this on a minute-by-minute basis, and we know that she can sing because she habitually sings six or seven different notes when one would do.