Sentence examples for try to oblige from inspiring English sources

I try to oblige; Christophe grabs me before I hit the fence.

Sandra K. Levick of the Public Defender Service there has resorted to the Freedom of Information Act to try to oblige the government to reveal his identity.

Turkey and Saudi Arabia may try to oblige but Iran, which dislikes Mr Allawi, has been scheming to keep him out.

So now, as I sit down next to Robertson, I try to oblige the mayor by talking about anything but the riots.

He will try to oblige the humble applicants, like the man with fourteen children, who wants the keeping of a park at Windsor and a post in the administration of the castle.

You can make outlandish (but legal) requests, as Observer columnist Eva Wiseman did recently on a trip to Vegas, demanding an all-white meal, Penguin biscuits in her transfer car, an Elvis impersonator to serenade her and a mini pig to pet – on a trip to Vegas – and they promise to at least try to oblige.

Lewis has tried to oblige.

The Turks have been trying to oblige us... Who wants to defend the Turks?

Team executives, despite great reservations, were trying to oblige him with a trade.

But smokers need all the help they can get, and Mayor Bloomberg, an ex-smoker himself, is trying to oblige.

The Clintons are trying hard to keep it from being a circus, and so far the people of Rhinebeck are trying to oblige.