Sentence examples for under obligations from inspiring English sources

He protested at first, saying he didn't want to be under obligations to me.

A spokesman for the British Bankers Associationn complains that his members "are placed under obligations but less thought is given to where banks can find authoritative information to abide by those obligations".

The campaign-finance system puts too many politicians under obligations to big-business donors: Enron lobbied successfully for exemption from financial regulation for its energy-trading arm, and it also helped to draw up the administration's energy policy.

These friendships often put Cook under obligations to individual chiefs that were at odds with those to his crew: a gentleman might complain that his gun had been stolen, but sometimes Cook felt he had to let the matter drop so as not to create a difficult situation with a chief who, he believed, considered him a friend.

But if lawyers are under obligations to disclose what clients tell them, clients may not confide in them, said James H. Cheek III, a lawyer at Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashville, and chairman of a task force looking at possible changes in the model rules of the American Bar Association.

And Pufendorf maintains that Spinoza's conception of right is defective in that it fails to produce a "moral effect" or to put others under obligations (Pufendorf 1934, 391).

"Board members of the Bundesbank are under obligation to show restraint in their political activities.

Any firm privy to such information is under obligation to keep silent.

When she felt she was not Under Obligation, Trudie could turn out some good simple things.

"Cosmeticized angels," I say, feeling under obligation to remark on them because my companions seem envious.

The pattern of politicians and governments finding themselves under "obligation" to Murdochs was set a century ago.