He said he had received death threats that obliged him to cancel all big public events.
By June, however, Milošević had agreed to a peace accord with NATO that obliged him to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
Are you crazy?" I didn't want to continue the conversation, but I said precisely the words that obliged him to do so.
When Renzi took over the government, Berlusconi was about to start serving a suspended sentence that obliged him to devote four hours a week to community service, tending Alzheimer's patients at a nursing home near Milan.
Over coffee -- or preferably something stronger -- he recalls the feuds that led the critic Clement Greenberg, speaking to Ms. Edgar, to call him a "gangster," and that obliged him to steer a careful course in running the Club.
Any technical challenge could engage the young Canadian, including one from the contemporary classical pianist Frederic Rzewski that obliged him to play 100 bars straight, and then play them all backwards.
To some, that leap still seems so inexplicable that it requires a sinister rationale: in "The Ghost," a roman à clef about Mr. Blair, the novelist Robert Harris posits that the prime minister had a secret C.I.A. connection that obliged him to pay obeisance to the White House.
Front Line Management, whose founder and chief executive is Irving Azoff — who is also executive chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster last month — filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday, saying that Mr. Rose, left, is in breach of an oral contract that obliged him to pay Front Line 15 percent of his gross earnings as a performer.
The pattern underlying his speech is one of bold statements gentled; the mischievous elan that produced his collection's title balanced by an intelligence that obliges him to qualify and a lifetime of experience that has shown him nothing is ever wholly good or bad.
Davies produced the entire run of The Good Life (1975-78), the 1972 series of Steptoe and Son, Frankie Howerd's Whoops Baghdad (1973) and the first two series of The Goodies (1970-72), a role that obliged him to balance the cost of elaborate visual effects against the size of the laugh they were likely to yield.
