Reverend Henry Ward Beecher was to have accompanied the expedition, but urgent duties obliged him to give up the idea.
Loftus afterwards complained that its ill-paid duties had obliged him to abandon a lucrative practice in the ecclesiastical courts.
We're not heartless, but we do have duties, and those duties oblige us to protect our ability to function.
Not only was he under no compulsion to remain silent, but his duty almost obliged him to speak.
In England feudal duty obliged many people to use bannal mills and ovens.
His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily, morning and evening.
"You have not offended me," was the reply; "you have only done what your duty obliged you to do."
Our democratic duties oblige us to do this, as do our obligations within the partnership.
He is quite right to say that duty and self-interest oblige America to help people struggling to eradicate tyranny, whether in Poland or Panama.
In those different operations, its duty to the public may sometimes have obliged it, without any fault of its directors, to overstock the circulation with paper money.