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  • Both parties have hereby fulfilled their obligations to each other in perpetuity" I'm just rattling off lawyer words.†   (source)
  • Did this obligation of the hostesses cause the journalists to be more cautious or tight-lipped for fear that some careless remark would be passed along?†   (source)
  • Instead, crises or other circumstances presented me with adult-sized responsibilities and obligations that I had to meet one way or another.†   (source)
  • Eliza dragged me inside, saying we still had an obligation to wash down the sickroom.†   (source)
  • According to Jewish custom, celibacy was condemned, and the obligation for a Jewish father was to find a suitable wife for his son.†   (source)
  • Once you reach that status, you will be required to learn about the particular inner workings of the life and obligations you would have as a princess.†   (source)
  • Because the case was now pending on direct appeal, the State had no obligation to let us see those records and files.†   (source)
  • I am not sure I can live this life of obligation any longer.†   (source)
  • He knew she could not wipe away the obligations of her life any more than he could his, but it went on, his pleadings and her rebuttals, his proposals and her apologies, his tears and hers.†   (source)
  • I am simply requiring you to fulfill your contractual obligations.†   (source)
  • This circle carries only two obligations--honesty and respect.†   (source)
  • Typical episode begins with the last important thing remembered: names of significant persons, unfulfilled obligations, etc.†   (source)
  • He was a physician, a scholar, an epicure, a connoisseur of fine wines, and a gentleman who took his social obligations seriously.†   (source)
  • Obligation.†   (source)
  • Surely you must feel some obligation, for the sake of history…†   (source)
  • That's our obligation, Henry.†   (source)
  • And whether he admitted it or not, Dorian had his own obligations to fulfill.†   (source)
  • "THE WAY YOU KNOW SOME THINGS—YOUR OBLIGATIONS, YOUR DESTINY OR YOUR FATE," he said.†   (source)
  • Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.†   (source)
  • To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.†   (source)
  • Emily wondered if they were being impertinent, for each twin seemed to behave as though his social obligations were halved.†   (source)
  • "I have an obligation," he's saying.†   (source)
  • The images are public, but we have no obligation to tell them our analysis.†   (source)
  • I think how to explain this, recalling the words Harold and I have used with each other in the past: "So we can eliminate false dependencies …. be equals …. love without obligation …."†   (source)
  • With John to help with the planting and Mercy still sharing the work of the household, there was no obligation now to hold Kit to the tasks she hated.†   (source)
  • No sense of obligation.†   (source)
  • Crew Obligation Statement: "I think we need to deviate right about now."†   (source)
  • Do you know what 'obligation' means?†   (source)
  • The other men lay awhile, on the dawn edge of sleep, not yet ready to rise up and begin the day's obligations, its fires and foods, its thousand details of putting foot after foot and hand after hand.†   (source)
  • It is not the children who are unmindful of their obligations toward this ministry.†   (source)
  • Obligations with respect to the Supply Corps: Residents must be prepared to help with office work at all times.†   (source)
  • Welty had no obligation to put his foot in but he was an affectionate man, without family, and he liked children.†   (source)
  • She hates to be under obligation to anyone, especially her own mother.†   (source)
  • Empty of any emotional obligation, but nonthreatening.†   (source)
  • Even when she's mad at me, she's the only person who's ever really looked out for me by choice, not because of family obligation and duty and responsibility and all the other stuff that The Book of Shhh says is so important.†   (source)
  • I am under no obligation to you.†   (source)
  • Of course, the hospital had stripped us naked in the first place—but that just underscored its obligation to shelter us.†   (source)
  • Both of us carry an obligation to Garrow.†   (source)
  • She feels no obligation to have good thoughts on behalf of her mortal soul in the hereafter, or even the here and now.†   (source)
  • Not that Kate seemed at all aware of my duties and obligations.†   (source)
  • The Port Angeles scheme was back on again for tonight and made all the more attractive by the fact that Lauren had other obligations.†   (source)
  • By the time he turned twelve years old Michael Oher was completely free of social obligations.†   (source)
  • I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me.†   (source)
  • The Bank of England and a syndicate of financiers were racing to raise a fund to guarantee Baring's financial obligations.†   (source)
  • She reasons that his death has nothing at all to do with 'garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks," and she is thereby lifted from moral obligation.†   (source)
  • Paul D touched its rim but didn't say anything--as though even "thank you" was an obligation he could not meet and the coffee itself a gift he could not take.†   (source)
  • Among the men there would be grumbling, of course, and maybe worse, because their days would seem longer and their loads heavier, but Lieutenant Jimmy Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun explored dozens of cities, always docking with a pocketful of money and no obligations to anyone.†   (source)
  • Carl refused; he'd borrowed more than $8 million from family members and friends, and he would not walk away from his obligations.†   (source)
  • He had never asked me anything, unless it was a demand, an expectation, an obligation to be his throwaway boy-doll.†   (source)
  • You have the obligation to have the baby.†   (source)
  • You have an obligation to produce.†   (source)
  • It would now be a task to perform, an obligation to be met, something to fail.†   (source)
  • Jennifer is the only relative who checks in with me to see how he's doing, but, bound by obligations to work and family, she hasn't yet been able to visit her brother.†   (source)
  • There was not as much money as they expected, but it was more than enough for the funeral expenses and to meet other minor obligations.†   (source)
  • The Emperor has obligations to me, too, Fenring.†   (source)
  • The only pressure I felt during my internship, and in the years since, has been a self-imposed obligation to act as a role model for Black youngsters.†   (source)
  • His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with.†   (source)
  • We needed a vacation, just the two of us, far from the obligations of our daily lives.†   (source)
  • Like most people, Horace felt the need not merely to know but to envision clearly whatever had happened; furthermore it was his obligation to envision it clearly so that in the official register of Island County deaths the truth, however painful, might be permanently inscribed.†   (source)
  • Shared his bed, but I believe, shared his obligations, too.†   (source)
  • We have noticed from the first how seriously you take your religious obligations.†   (source)
  • He seemed to feel that he could tell her anything, now that he had no formal obligations to her.†   (source)
  • He had immediately concluded that there was a discrepancy between Palmgren's obligations, according to the regulations of guardianship, and the fact that he had apparently allowed the Salander girl to take charge of her own household and finances.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Mary-Kate had significantly reduced her responsibilities at the sorority—other than attending mandatory meetings, Sophia was for the most part exempt from sisterly obligations.†   (source)
  • We have obligations.†   (source)
  • Of course, you're under no obligation to answer our questions, and anything you say may be used against you in evidence.†   (source)
  • Do you understand that I would have had the obligation today to find whether or not there was probable cause to believe that you committed the acts for which you are charged, and that by waiving the probable cause hearing, you are not requiring me to find that probable cause; you will now be bound over to the grand jury, and I will bind this case over to the superior court?†   (source)
  • He had no idea that I had sent papers to the State Department with the opposite instructions, and he had no intention of meeting his obligations in America.†   (source)
  • It seemed, suddenly, that she had been away a long time, had failed very great obligations.†   (source)
  • I found it difficult to swallow the idea that I would sacrifice what I regarded as my obligation to the students for my own selfish interests.†   (source)
  • As a scientist, she believed that it was her obligation to perform medical research that would help alleviate human suffering.†   (source)
  • There were obligations, as well as the looming threat that she might be pressured into marrying someone she didn't love.†   (source)
  • Before she kissed her mother, took up her bundle and trudged away in the chill, gray dawn, she declared an intention to come home and pay back every one to whom they were under obligations.†   (source)
  • It places one under no obligation.†   (source)
  • I gave you money and things out of a sense of obligation, not a true spirit of giving.†   (source)
  • I don't think his joining the service had anything to do with ideals or moral obligation or even knowing that if he didn't join, he'd very likely get drafted.†   (source)
  • When Newt managed to do some job right, the Captain seemed to feel that he had been put under an obligation, which puzzled Newt and made him wonder what was the point of working well if it was only going to irritate the Captain.†   (source)
  • The human rights 'system'--laws, policies, and conventions--must be used to hold states accountable for obligations undertaken pursuant to treaties.†   (source)
  • Track officials appeared to feel little obligation to them.†   (source)
  • If the government thinks Roger hasn't lived up to his legal obligations or has run afoul of some regulation they come after him.†   (source)
  • The U.S. government has an obligation to make sure you are safe.†   (source)
  • Particularly after September 11, 2001, he felt that it was his obligation to defend and possibly even die for the country that was his new home.†   (source)
  • Privately, he continued to wrestle with his Adventist beliefs and their conflict with his military obligations.†   (source)
  • Too many obligations.†   (source)
  • How can you fulfill any obligations as Caretaker?†   (source)
  • No conflicting obligations.†   (source)
  • But you feel an obligation to a world you love because that world for you is still intact.†   (source)
  • It bothered her to have to stay locked up within these walls that stank of medicine and age, to be kept awake at night by the moans of her sick mother, always attentive to the clock so as to administer each dose at the proper time, bored, tired, and unhappy while her brother had no taste of such obligations.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to go to a movie with him without getting involved afterwards in a discussion on empathy, Aristotle, universals, messages and the obligations of the cinema as an art form in a materialistic society.†   (source)
  • In other words, we each understood what was expected of us and did our best to fulfill our obligations.†   (source)
  • March is coming, and obligations brim like a lake above a dammed river.†   (source)
  • Or was it something else, an obligation of some sort to repay his good deed of rescuing Sprat?†   (source)
  • "Destiny" sounded like an obligation, and if I was to be thrust into battle against a legion of nightmare creatures, that had to be my choice.†   (source)
  • But Casey's obligations to cheer at the game had interfered.†   (source)
  • Our moral obligation!†   (source)
  • She felt neither an obligation to join the herd nor any urge to try to stand out from it.†   (source)
  • I have no right to ask her, and she isn't under any obligation to tell me.†   (source)
  • Surely they didn't expect him to pursue this woman out of obligation.†   (source)
  • It is an obligation that I happily accept, but as a result I never have felt the opportunity to marry and have children.†   (source)
  • So here I am, thirty-eight years old, a husband and father of three, with a lengthy list of responsibilities and obligations.†   (source)
  • What Lieutenant Awn had asked for was something surrounded by legal obligations—not least among them the requirement that two witnesses be present, and Lieutenant Awn would have the right to name one of them.†   (source)
  • They were wrong, but they had the obligation to discover their mistake.†   (source)
  • It was issued in the spirit of their obligation, as commissioned by the King, to serve as peace negotiators as well as military commanders, but also because Lord Howe genuinely believed that a negotiated settlement with the Americans was yet possible and vastly preferable to a long-drawn-out conflict.†   (source)
  • Do you understand your rights and obligations in this matter?†   (source)
  • I went to the funeral home one night myself, half as a reporter, half as a man whose obligation it was to be there.†   (source)
  • You will have no further obligations to me, and I accept that.†   (source)
  • They have always felt their obligations most keenly.†   (source)
  • 'They' can get drummed out of the service, and if I don't meet my obligations, I can lose my clearance.†   (source)
  • One, it seemed to Annie, was comprised of obligations and the other of possibilities.†   (source)
  • This day, of all days, he had an obligation to the dead.†   (source)
  • It is my obligation to assure you that news of this will not be well received by my queen.†   (source)
  • And while Jackie has canceled all formal social obligations until January 1964, this simple supper is an attempt to begin a normal daily life again.†   (source)
  • You must fulfill your obligation for inconveniencing her.†   (source)
  • No obligation on your part.†   (source)
  • A gerundive has a form similar to the gerund but implies the necessity, obligation, or worthiness of the action to be done, as in the book is worth reading.†   (source)
  • As a reward, you shall have the honor of accompanying me as an aide-de-camp before fulfilling your obligation to the witches.†   (source)
  • I am pleased to say that her obligations elsewhere are at an end, and she will be returning to us soon.†   (source)
  • The English, in the treaty negotiations, insisted that the Spanish pay the return transport as a "moral obligation," because the Africans were illegally destined for a Spanish port.†   (source)
  • For me, it was the heady time of adolescence that unmasked and clarified my sense of obligations, so much so that I now view that period as the true beginning of "my life."†   (source)
  • He was under no obligation to be polite to his prisoner.†   (source)
  • Men with wives and sisters felt this obligation a good deal more seriously, filling their letters with references to protecting "the fair daughters of my own native state …. from Yankee outrage and atrocity," from the "varlet's tread," the "fiendish vandals" and "despoiler of Southern homes," shielding "the loved ones who call upon me to defend their homes from pillage."†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent and her son shall make no claims to taxes, incomes, nor service from my people, and shall free my lords and knights from all oaths of fealty, vows, pledges, debts, and obligations owed to the Iron Throne and the Houses Baratheon and Lannister.†   (source)
  • It was, as Bacon pointed out to him, a financial obligation.†   (source)
  • You had an obligation to tell me!†   (source)
  • But this is also a legal matter, and I have an obligation.†   (source)
  • Mutual financial obligations that don't yield an equal benefit disturb the tranquility of nations.†   (source)
  • We got new sponsors who were paying us money to wear and use their products, and, of course, there were contractual obligations that came with those agreements.†   (source)
  • So it was that when Helen broached the subject of going to Janis's for supper (his older sister, marriage, their obligation and so on), he thought, Old Chao's house?†   (source)
  • My two brothers, Scott and Freddy, had obligations and couldn't get away.†   (source)
  • There are six low phoenix notes and six high, six worldly environments, six senses, six virtues, six obligations, six classes of ideograph, six domestic animals, six arts, and six paths of metempsychosis.†   (source)
  • I declare, effective at this moment, a moratorium on the payment of all debts, rents, taxes, interest, mortgages, insurance claims, and premiums, and all and any other financial obligations for the duration of the emergency.†   (source)
  • Come in just a minute—no obligation—like to show you these new hats.†   (source)
  • I remark upon all this only to give an idea of Jack's exceptional allure as a person, and to explain why I jumped at his invitation at the cost of neglecting my obligations in regard to Nathan and Sophie.†   (source)
  • I was under no obligation to pursue matters beyond this point.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK With a year's subscription to the Baltimore Herald, We give away—at no cost or obligation— A year of freedom.†   (source)
  • A man had a responsibility to meet his social obligations on time.†   (source)
  • Sedgwick had fulfilled his obligations as administrative head with a mercurial visit to the island at the end of November.†   (source)
  • I said, "Why do you think I have obligations to you?†   (source)
  • Quite aside from the impossibility of dragging the troops home in view of our treaty obligations and what it would do to the colony planets in the Federation and to our allies, we were awfully busy doing something else, to wit: carrying the war to the Bugs.†   (source)
  • It was far from an easy job, and it had duties and obligations beyond belief.†   (source)
  • There are no obligations, I realize that.†   (source)
  • Guizac," she said, "I can barely meet my obligations now."†   (source)
  • Expressing no surprise, they reminded him of his obligation to return the sample if he discontinued acting on their behalf, and rang off.†   (source)
  • Before, there had been obligations of all kinds, sacred duties-your duty to your country, to the army, to society.†   (source)
  • …its fullest, most impaling concentration: there took shape, from its utter darkness, like the slow emergence of the countryside into first daylight, all those separate realizations which could be resolved into images, emotions, thought, words, obligations: so that after not more than a couple of minutes, during which Hannah never ceased to say to her, "Mary, Mary, and Father Jackson, his eyes closed, prayed, she sat still for a moment, then got quietly onto her knees, was silent for…†   (source)
  • Even if I can disregard those pressures, do I not have an obligation to go along with the party that placed me in office?†   (source)
  • From this point to end o f play his manner is o f one who has fulfilled all his obligations and will now consult no interests but his own) My lord, when I was practicing the law, the manner was to ask the prisoner before pronouncing sentence, if he had anything to say.†   (source)
  • They might long ago have become friends had they happened to meet somewhere; therefore it was not his duty – an obligation – to bring them together, nothing more, a harmless connivance to replace an accidental encounter in the subway, let's say, or a mutual friend's introduction in the street?†   (source)
  • If you really owe your dress-maker, I will settle with her--beyond that I recognize no obligation to assume your debts.   (source)
    obligation = duty
  • The demands, the obligations she saddles you with.†   (source)
  • If I was to be given that information, I could pursue my obligations with greater speed.†   (source)
  • I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over.†   (source)
  • It's like a holy obligation, part of what makes her a wife and mother.†   (source)
  • My Son was under no engagement to you, nor is he under any obligation.†   (source)
  • "Yes, but I'm under no obligation to obey him.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew he had an obligation to share with Katherine the rest of tonight's terrible news.†   (source)
  • WATER BURDEN: Fremen: a mortal obligation.†   (source)
  • And the hospital fulfilled its obligation.†   (source)
  • All of our duties and obligations back home were just distant memories.†   (source)
  • What is there to remind you of your obligations, Eragon?†   (source)
  • What obligations do the English have toward us?†   (source)
  • She has to take her obligations more seriously.†   (source)
  • Without regrets she honored the obligation she felt to him and was happy to efface herself.†   (source)
  • But my obligation to Mike Evans had been small at best.†   (source)
  • Whatever his obligations were, that act paid them off.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist pointed out that they had no obligation to explain how they had acquired the material.†   (source)
  • He has finally upgraded from a hint to a crew obligation: he wants to abort the landing.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' rages aren't, and it becomes part of my obligation to dwell on these.†   (source)
  • "Those of us who make the rules have the greatest obligation to abide by them," he had said to him.†   (source)
  • What's the fifth obligation?" the boy asked.†   (source)
  • She was under no obligation to the truth, she had promised no one a chronicle.†   (source)
  • Two women leave, claiming obligations involving grandchildren.†   (source)
  • It was a seminary, but there was no obligation to the priesthood.†   (source)
  • Which means that I no longer have any obligation to keep her informed.†   (source)
  • The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • With this brittle precis of her obligations he left the table and went toward the bedroom.†   (source)
  • Chani's father put heavy obligation on me.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, the family stands fully behind Henrik's obligations to the magazine.†   (source)
  • Boiled down, envelopes were filled with money and delivered to me to fulfill certain obligations.†   (source)
  • But I did have an obligation, as leader, to take care of Nudge.†   (source)
  • You are under no obligation to agree, of course.†   (source)
  • When I first joined your board it was to fulfil obligations that I could not neglect.†   (source)
  • For months he had worried about his obligations to Camp Jupiter, hoping his path would become clear.†   (source)
  • The people had become his family, and his obligations were now to them as well.†   (source)
  • Then you put a folded newspaper over the pot and do one small obligation.†   (source)
  • You're under no obligation to answer my question.†   (source)
  • If I had the power, I would have the obligation to keep him alive forever.†   (source)
  • That said, you have no obligation to her.†   (source)
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