oblige
Example Sentences
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The Kalven Report allows—in fact, obliges—a university to speak on issues that threaten its mission.
In addition, schools are obliged to publish admissions information on their own websites.
From BBC
That’s the plank that says an attack on one is an attack on all and obliges a united response.
It is obliged, instead, to adopt what François Jacob, a French biologist, referred to in 1977 as a strategy of “tinkering.”
China would have sought his extradition, and the government or some corrupt officials no doubt would have obliged.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
