oblige
Example Sentences
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In return for permission to build extra apartments, the developers of the store and 40 others were obliged to allocate space for a supermarket.
From Barron's
Kyiv would be obliged to respond to any violations of electoral laws by such candidates and bar them from participating.
Known as the mandatory reimbursement requirement it obliges banks to refund most victims of push payment fraud - when victims are tricked and manipulated into transferring money to criminals themselves.
From BBC
They rode to work in Rolls-Royces and adhered to a Protestant ethic of noblesse oblige.
In 424 B.C., he was exiled for 20 years after failing to block its advance—a humiliation that obliged him to reappear in his own narrative.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
