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Example sentences for "are obliged"

  • This we are obliged to, in duty to our gracious King, as well as to ourselves.

  • It is surprising how many things that we think are almost necessary to life we can get along without if we are obliged to.

  • Accurate observation is, as a rule, rare among country people unless they are obliged to learn from necessity.

  • If there is no dry wood in the neighbourhood, and we are obliged to cut a tree down to get our supply, it is very important to pitch our camp somewhere near the right kind of a tree and not be obliged to carry our firewood a long distance.

  • They will not hearken to reason, therefore we are obliged to comply with their demands, and serve out provisions accordingly.

  • The greatest part of our seal taken in at Port Desire, for want of salt to cure it there, now stinks very much; but having nothing else we are obliged to eat it.

  • We are obliged to add, that the paper issues of our banks carried the same effect still further.

  • We are supposed to know nothing about each other and to want to know less, so that when we do each other a courtesy we are obliged to save our faces by saying, 'We don't really do you one.

  • We must pretend we don't want to bring this divorce, but that we have been so injured that we are obliged to come forward.

  • We are obliged to employ metallic vessels in this process, because fluoric acid dissolves glass and silicious earth, and even renders these bodies volatile, carrying them over with itself in distillation in the gasseous form.

  • This division of our subject we are obliged to treat with comparative brevity; and happily, no very lengthened treatment of it is needed.

  • We are obliged to think in sequence; it is the law of our minds that we must consider subjects separately, one after another: therefore Nature must be serial--therefore the sciences must be classifiable in a succession.

  • It is, necessary that we should form of suffering an idea of such a nature that we are obliged to share and take part in it.

  • To describe a figure in space, we are obliged to limit infinite space; to represent to ourselves a change in time, we are obliged to divide the totality of time.

  • As this interview and those which follow took place in the presence of witnesses, we are obliged to ask the reader to accompany us for a time to another part of the same house.

  • Nevertheless," said the cure, "we are obliged to recognise their existence.

  • Lord Edward FitzGerald now joined the movement; and even those who cannot commend the cause, are obliged to admire the perfection of his devoted self-sacrifice to what he believed to be the interests of his country.

  • I and my sons have received several notices of violence in every shape, and we are obliged to sleep with our house half filled with arms and ammunition, in dread of an attack every night in the year.

  • This report spread rapidly, and it is with equal pain and shame we are obliged to confess that in general it was received with evident and undisguised satisfaction.

  • That is, ye are obliged to believe in him by the strongest arguments and motives.

  • Another was, that he might alter the turns of his wives, and take such of them to his bed as he thought fit, without being tied to that order and equality which others are obliged to observe.

  • We are obliged to make open profession of our faith as often as God's honor, our neighbor's spiritual good, or our own requires it.

  • By the command of confessing at least once a year is meant that we are obliged, under pain of mortal sin, to go to Confession within the year.

  • We are obliged to contribute to the support of our pastors, and to bear our share in the expenses of the Church and school.

  • All citizens, having the required qualifications, between the ages of thirty and seventy, are obliged to serve, under a penalty of five hundred francs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are about; are accustomed; are all; are also; are always; are apt; are informed; are led; are made; are more; are not; are now; are obliged; are often; are ready; are those; are told; are you; brief outline; hereby authorized; like vnto; make others; once started; sweet smile; take upon; toothed tiger