Sentence examples for were obliged to join from inspiring English sources

Bosses of local subsidiaries were obliged to join in.

Patching together a new administration, in the absence of records, offices or communications, is proving to be painfully slow.Most bureaucrats were obliged to join the Baath party, but weeding out abusers is fraught with difficulty.

The Congress decided that all Leagues were obliged to join the Party of Italian Workers.

De-Baathification referred to the removal of anyone who was a member of Hussein's ruling Baath Party from public life, including low-level functionaries who were obliged to join the party simply in order to secure a job.

If Turkey were attacked Britain would be obliged to join a Nato operation to come to its aid.

Poland is obliged to join the single currency as part of its agreement on entering the EU.

Indeed, all EU members, except those like Britain with an opt-out, are obliged to join the euro.

Newspapers would not be obliged to join the new system, but would have incentives to do so, including better protection from libel damages.

Those who want to participate in prosperity are obliged to join America in crushing the fanatical fearmongers and the nations nurturing them.

This is not now the case of Catalonia, unhappy as it mainly is with the state which it was obliged to join three centuries ago.

And not even a club that all newspapers are obliged to join, as illustrated so finely when Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell walked out of the PCC.