Sentence examples for would not oblige from inspiring English sources
The draft proposals would not oblige managers to step down.
But this time the Magic, the hottest team in the National Basketball Association, would not oblige.
Ms. Hedren, for one, told Mr. Spoto not only about her ornithological nightmare ("Are you trying to kill her?" asked Ms. Hedren's doctor during her "Birds" ordeal) but also about Hitchcock's attempt to force her into making herself sexually available to him, threatening to ruin her career if she would not oblige.
However, even though the EU has also banned his wife Asma, she could, in theory, still attend the Olympics because she is a British passport holder and the EU has confirmed it "would not oblige the UK to deny her entry".
He points mournfully to a paved square outside Morrisons: early in Cambourne's development, the parish council suggested it might be the ideal setting for a farmers' market, but Morrisons owns the space and would not oblige – claiming, Hume says, that the kind of produce that might be sold outdoors was already available on its premises.
Clearly Washington hoped for a reciprocal approach, but Russia would not oblige.
But it wouldn't oblige states to perform second-parent adoptions, for instance.
Now, normally we wouldn't oblige because, frankly, we've got better things to do than take orders from unknown indie singers, especially if it involves playing a sort of indie-pop version of Simon Says, and besides, we usually only lift our arms for the local constabulary.
She wouldn't oblige directors' more offensive casting couch requests, she said, and apart from some bit parts, wasn't getting the right roles anyway.
Watching a B-boy start a fight with a drag queen by pulling her hair when she wouldn't oblige him with a dance-off.
