We bear you no ill-will, yet circumstances oblige us to take every precaution for our own safety.

However, I resisted the impulse, as indeed our circumstances obliged me to do.

In the 1870s, At the age of 21, circumstances obliged him to return to England in order to make a living from his art.

His work was interrupted by obligatory military service, and on his release, his poor circumstances obliged him to return to Cologne.

This circumstance obliged him to leave Saint-Sulpice on April 19, 1672.

Indeed, circumstances obliged the Church to admit the equality of lay jurists.

But circumstances will not oblige.

In the first place, circumstances oblige him to murder a second person; that is the unforeseeable and illogical consequence of an apparently simple and logical action.

Actually I had been considering for some time that circumstances might very soon oblige me to consult with Mycroft.

While the present circumstances have obliged me to decline further confrontation at this time, be assured that I shall continue to press my claim to what is mine.