under an obligation in English

committed to something, owing

Use "under an obligation" in a sentence

1. We are under an obligation to help.

2. She is under an obligation to her adoptive mother.

3. His kindness places us under an obligation to him.

4. She is under an obligation to her adoptive father.

5. 27 Their frequent invitation places us under an obligation to invite them to our house for a change.

6. In the alternative, they argue that the Commission itself acknowledged that it was under an obligation to act before 1 January 2000.

7. Article 17: The State and public authorities are under an obligation to protect young people against exploitation and moral, intellectual and physical abandonment.

8. The appellants argue that since the IRISL-related criterion expressly named IRISL and was thus an ad hominem criterion directly concerning the latter, the Council was under an obligation to inform them of its intended amendments.

9. Origen is speaking of an Adjuration whereby a man intends to put another under an obligation, in the same way as he would bind himself by oath: for thus did the high-priest presume to adjure our Lord Jesus Christ [Matthew 26:63]

10. The admissibility of an application is not at the discretion of the parties, since a bar to proceeding with the case is mandatory and the Court is under an obligation to rule on an objection of that nature raised by one of the parties.

11. First, the appellants submit that since the criterion relating to the link with IRISL expressly named that entity, it had to be considered an ad hominem criterion, so that the Council was under an obligation to inform them of the amendments it envisaged making and to enable them to submit their observations.

12. oBligation: 1 n the state of being obligated to do or pay something “he is under an oBligation to finish the job” Types: show 6 types hide 6 types financial oBligation , indebtedness , liability an oBligation to pay money to another party limited liability the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital they have invested

13. Although the time I have is very brief, I must tell the Commissioner that regardless of what we or the Commission might think about case-law or the law in force, it is under an obligation to implement the Treaties and move ahead, and that it has no authority to hold any rule or anything which may affect the Community acquis in abeyance.

14. 605 Applicant [R-11.2013] Effective September 16, 2012, the Office revised the rules of practice to permit a person to whom the inventor has assigned or is under an obligation to assign an invention to file and prosecute an application for patent as the Applicant, and to permit a person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter to file and prosecute an application for

15. It is clear that in the case of a stranger the presumption is in favour of its being a Benamee transaction, that is a trust; but it is clear also that in this country, where the person in whose name the purchase is made is one for whom the party making the purchase was under an obligation to provide, the case is different; and it is said that

16. For purposes of deciding whether or not to detain a person pending removal, the impossibility to reach the person concerned could lead to a presumption that he/she has absconded and therefore should be held to ensure effective removal from the territory, only where the addressee of the removal order has been duly informed that he/she was under an obligation to inform the authorities about any change of residence.