As employers came across other firms using backdating, they felt obliged to do so too.
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In Denmark the central bank felt obliged to bail out a small lender on September 22nd.
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But after two years of occupation the Ethiopians, harassed and bruised, felt obliged to leave.
In return for awarding a licence, the mandarins have felt obliged to keep the beneficiary in business.
Yet when complaints rained down on the BBC about Mr. Robinson's word choice, he felt obliged to atone.
But on Friday, Suleiman did an about-face, saying he felt obliged to supporters.
But on Friday, he did an about-face, saying he felt obliged to supporters.
Once one firm entered the fray, the others may have felt obliged to follow suit, if only to save face.
He has felt obliged to forswear the use of force against the road blocks and failed to get results from Congress.
He felt obliged to support them by giving them shelter and food.
His FCC Chairman (and close friend) felt obliged to do something.
So in government Labour felt obliged to outlaw sales of bony beef.
He has been out of one since he felt obliged to resign after four months as boss of Mr Yeltsin's security council in 1996.
Bill Connor said there was growing pressure among retailers to open 365 days a year, which put pressure on workers who felt obliged to work.
To attain Ikea's promise of a beautiful life in Hungary's new economy, a young man felt obliged to risk his life, his health and his freedom.
The head of the rebel army's political wing, Hasim Thaci, 29, who was the Kosovars' chief negotiator in France, felt obliged to defer to Mr Demaci.
Few would dispute that the pool of players Vogts was able to pick from was as weak as any the Tartan Army has felt obliged to follow.
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But the missions have been so effective politically that the opposition has felt obliged to pledge to continue them, though it also aims to fix their flaws.
It used to be that, having won election, the president was presumed to have a mandate to rule, so the Senate felt obliged to defer to his appointments.
Robert Slough, who is a family support worker, said it was a difficult decision to strike because he was losing wages but said he felt obliged to take action.
They then got almost all the state chief ministers to endorse Anwar, who by then issued a statement that he felt obliged to heed the party's wishes and accept the nominations.
At the same time, Mr Abbas has felt obliged to tighten his control over dissenters, including his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, a political independent, by cajoling him into shuffling his cabinet.
Mr Cameron said the Algerian prime minister had told him that commanders had "judged there to be an immediate threat to the lives of the hostages and had felt obliged to respond".
Mr Cameron said the Algerian prime minister had told him that the military had "judged there to be an immediate threat to the lives of the hostages and had felt obliged to respond".
He told the court that because of the "evangelical imprint" of his duties, he felt obliged to help other Vatican employees who did not enjoy the privilege of such close contact with the pontiff.
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So it was a pity that Lawrence Summers, America's deputy treasury secretary, felt obliged to complain last week that Japan was doing too little to boost its domestic demand and its imports from America.
When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.
When the Democrats won a victory last month by holding a white working-class district in a special election in western Pennsylvania, their own candidate felt obliged to assure angry voters that he for one would have opposed Obamacare if he had been in Congress at the time.
He has kept the experienced Lamberto Dini as foreign minister and the solid Enzo Bianco as home minister, but felt obliged to sack the two ministers who at least had the guts to try to launch the boldest of the reforms attempted by the previous government: Rosy Bindi at the health ministry and Luigi Berlinguer at education.
So forceful were Senator Helms words (highlights of which are excerpted below), that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright felt obliged on 24 January to repudiate his remarks and challenge his characterization of the attitudes of the American people.
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