"Despite the general surprise and consternation, those present found themselves obliged to follow through".
In the absence of such a patron, Middle Easterners found themselves obliged to mobilize their own force of resistance.
The reaction startled the Australian film-makers, who found themselves obliged to stand up and wave awkwardly to the audience.
Women who are not trafficked abroad find themselves obliged to take their chances on the violent streets of Odessa.
In many Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, people are behaving, or finding themselves obliged to behave, in a stricter Islamic manner.
"Even if states do not find themselves obliged to regulate their military activities during armed conflict, most states today have environmental regulations in their rules of engagement.
But now that the Parliament is here, even those separatists who greeted the new Parliament with little enthusiasm have found themselves obliged to support it.
"Ministers responded, and no doubt felt themselves obliged to respond, but again not as part of Prince Charles's preparation for kingship".
The clouds that lingered so coldly over the Turf in midwinter have begun to reveal their silver lining, with trainers now finding themselves obliged to get a run into Cheltenham Festival candidates literally any day of the week.
Sober scientists out to solve basic problems in microscopic and macroscopic physics alike are finding themselves obliged to consider, however reluctantly, the daunting prospect that ours is just one among many universes.
Two centuries of lawmaking, compounded by the cumulative ingenuity of lawyers, have created statutes and precedents that touch on every part of life, multiplying the chances that citizens will find themselves obliged to give evidence in legal proceedings.
