If they asked you for a favor, you would likely oblige.
On 28 July 1800, at the suggestion of Coleridge, he wrote to the chemist Humphry Davy: You would greatly oblige me by looking over the enclosed poems, and correcting anything you find amiss in the punctuation, a business at which I am ashamed to say I am no adept.
Here's some of the exchange: Hewitt: If you personally believed, I mean really, genuinely believed, that you were the only candidate who could beat Hillary, and that belief was confirmed by your family, your friends, and your respected political advisers, would you not then feel obliged to run?
If you were soliciting résumés, you would be obliged to tell your friend about the bonus so that the two of you could come to an agreement about it.
Even if you didn't like David Del Tredici's music, you would be obliged to admire its intrepidity and self-confidence.
"I would have teams with roving vans and if you are on the child-protection register, then you would be obliged to hand over a house key.
If you were trying to get money for Grey Gardens now you would be obliged to say that it encompassed a remedial alcoholism programme for upper-middle-class white alcoholics in the posher bits of Long Island".
Perhaps if the banks were forced to bear all the costs of online fraud, they'd suddenly discover an interest in handing out properly secure systems – such as Linux systems on memory sticks which you'd be obliged to boot into if you wanted online banking via a PC.
If McCoy told you his story over a whiskey, you'd be obliged to buy the next round.
If TomDispatch regular McCoy told you his story over a whiskey, you'd be obliged to buy the next round.
