• But they still feel obliged to avoid the areas of eastern Baghdad controlled by the Sadrists.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq and the Kurds: A truly national army? | The

  • Would the American president still feel obliged to defend Israel from the consequences of its own folly?

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • The danger, said Mr Upton, is that people might feel obliged to lose their accents rather than their prejudices.

    BBC: By BBC News Online's Liz Doig

  • The charity Samaritans advises people that they should not feel obliged to enjoy themselves just because it is Christmas.

    BBC: Surviving the big day

  • Why does it now feel obliged to convene conferences to ask the troubling question: Where have our entrepreneurs gone?

    FORBES: SOIL FOR THE SEED

  • Those few that do remain feel obliged to put on a semblance of democracy with rigged elections and phony votes.

    FORBES: The Lunge Towards Liberty

  • Often, investors feel obliged to invest in risky assets because money is so cheap, without an adequate assessment of risks.

    FORBES: 5 Reasons Why Ben is "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

  • Having offered help once, it is possible that America will feel obliged to step in again if the situation deteriorates further.

    ECONOMIST: America to the rescue? | The

  • Then there are the countless consultants, accountants and lawyers who work for these institutions, and will feel obliged to be represented on Saadiyat.

    ECONOMIST: Finance in the Gulf

  • Bankers feel obliged to advise clients against snapping up distressed securitised assets until the mortgage giants are put on a firmer footing, says one.

    ECONOMIST: American banks

  • There are fears that if his more western-friendly policy does not pay dividends of some sort soon, Mr Putin may feel obliged to backtrack.

    ECONOMIST: Russia, NATO and even the Baltic states may end up friends

  • Naples is part of a sovereign country - Italy - which would, presumably, feel obliged to step in, long before the city ran out of money.

    BBC: Is Cyprus small enough?

  • Believing many of Labour's London MPs are privately opposed to the PPP but feel obliged to back it in public, Mr Livingstone suggested they be exposed.

    BBC: Livingstone urges Tories to 'roast' Labour

  • The surprise success stories feel obliged to parade around talking incessantly, if monotonously, about their wonderful lives, while the perennial underachievers cluster miserably around the punch bowl.

    FORBES: Health, wealth and technology

  • One should not, for example, compliment a host on any specific item in his home, as he will then feel obliged to offer it as a gift.

    NPR: Sergeant Notes Odd Rituals of War in Afghanistan

  • Now that the banks feel obliged to charge for such risks, huge chunks of the economy (including important sources of party-political funds) would collapse without the government's help.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese finance

  • And, everything else being equal (as they say), that means they would feel obliged to charge their customers rather more for loans and for keeping money safe (cough).

    BBC: The cost of making big banks safe

  • Yet I agree with John: I would like Jamie to be able to follow her heart to the best school she can, rather than feel obliged to select a lower-cost option.

    WSJ: Should Cost Affect Where Our Daughter Applies to College?

  • Critics suggest that the solicitors and barristers who were asked to make a donation may feel obliged to do so, since the lord chancellor can effectively make or break their careers.

    BBC: Lord Irvine: A 'blunder' too far?

  • For another, developed nations that have in the past been willing to entrust their security to the protection of the American nuclear umbrella will probably feel obliged to revisit that decision.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • "There continues to be a gross misrepresentation of our conduct and the values with which we run our business, which we feel obliged to correct, " said Mark Scheinberg, in email to the Journal.

    WSJ: PokerStars, Online Gambling Bet on Return to U.S.

  • Some feel obliged to respond to messages immediately.

    ECONOMIST: Through a glass darkly

  • But I feel obliged to point out that this banker - like pretty much all his peers - has for three years consistently under-estimated the magnitude of what has gone wrong in Europe's currency union.

    BBC: Can Draghi do 'whatever it takes' to save euro?

  • Mr. President, I feel obliged to make clear to you my concern that your Administration has been unwisely and unnecessarily engaged in delay in submitting these treaties to the Senate for its advice and consent.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: United States Senate

  • The big question now is whether the government will feel obliged to legalise the Brotherhood as a party, and whether this parliament, against whose members some 500 court challenges have already been lodged, will last long.

    ECONOMIST: Not yet a democracy

  • Even though the conservatives still controlled all the effective instruments of state power the judiciary, the police, the army, the broadcast media it was fair to hope they would feel obliged to pay heed to the strength of the people's voice.

    ECONOMIST: The collapsing of Iranian reform

  • The longer Israel allows its very right to exist to be contingent on the establishment of another terror state committed to its destruction, the less the nations of the world will feel obliged to accept its right to exist.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's Only Two Options

  • The big networks will feel obliged to pay the going rate, the customers will still have to pay the full price on their data plan, and the networks will have another few months to think up something else to replace their diminishing revenue streams.

    FORBES: AT&T Looking to Double-Dip on Mobile Data Charges

  • But if a majority of BSkyB's independent shareholders were to vote against him, that would put the independent non-executives on BSkyB's board in a tricky position: according to a source close to the board, they would almost certainly feel obliged to ask James Murdoch to stand down.

    BBC: News Corp's James Murdoch under pressure

  • The five House conservatives...are asking questions that adults responsible for national security should feel obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedin's family history, is she someone who ought to have a security clearance, particularly one that would give her access to top-secret information about the Brotherhood?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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