I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.
Here's the real secret: you can fulfill the commands of the Bible better by falling in love with God than by trying to obey him. It's not that your obedience isn't significant or relevant; it's simply not the center of the wheel. No, the hub of your ...
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also. If we wait fo...
How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibiliti...
Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.
... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
