Obliging Sentence Examples

He is hospitable, obliging, and specially well disposed to the foreigner.

She is also too obliging for her own good.

Cynthia obliging cut a piece—a second piece for Dean after he frowned—a third as she joined them.

A special thanks to Brett Wendorf who was extremely obliging, generous with his time and is an asset to your team.

These butterflies are quite a challenge to photograph, sometimes you can't get within eight feet and other times they seem quite obliging.

Debbie is so obliging, considerate, caring and amusing.

Despite the hot weather, Mike Peers found the bream and tench particularly obliging when he fished peg 68 on the island bank.

The males often proved more obliging than the females.

Two hundred meters down hill from the bus station was a singing male blue rock thrush which was very obliging.

With such followers he made the constitution of 1876 and all the laws of the monarchy, putting a limited franchise in the place of universal suffrage, curtailing liberty of conscience, rights of association and of meeting, liberty of the press, checking democracy, obliging the military to abstain from politics, conciliating the Carlists and Catholics by his advances to the Vatican, the Church and the religious orders, pandering to the protectionists by his tariff policy, and courting abroad the friendship of Germany and Austria after contributing to the marriage of his king to an Austrian princess.

Judge Marshall carried the turkey simply because he wished to be kind and obliging.

The war has displaced an estimated 1.6 million people in northern Uganda, obliging them to seek refuge in 135 overcrowded and unsanitary camps.

I think aught will come of their rantings as the miners swear they'll flee the area for a more obliging locale if such nonsense were to happen.

Protestant suspicion was excited; in 1673 was passed the Test Act, obliging all office-holders to receive the sacrament in the Established Church, and to declare their disbelief in transubstantiation.

She is always spoken of by his friends as a mild, reasonable and obliging person, whose amiability and gentle sense did much to soothe the too nervous and excitable temperament of her husband.

Cynthia obliging cut a piece—a second piece for Dean after he frowned—a third as she joined them.

Carp Another quite week although the few carp anglers that did fish found the carp surprisingly obliging.

A Russian army destined for the Bosporus, which had been gathered near Odessa, obliging the Porte to keep strong bodies of troops about Constantinople, had been called to Galicia, thus liberating several Turkish divisions for service at the Dardanelles.

These votes, however, were cancelled later, on the 26th of July, under the pressure of the royalist city mob which invaded the two Houses; but the two speakers, with eight peers and fifty-seven members of the Commons, themselves joined the army, which now advanced to London, overawing all resistance, escorting the fugitive members in triumph to Westminster on the 6th of August, and obliging the parliament on the 10th to cancel the last votes, with the threat of a regiment of cavalry drawn up by Cromwell in Hyde Park.

Varchi says that "in his conversation he was pleasant, obliging to his intimates, the friend of virtuous persons."

Its Correspondance bimensuelle and Annuaire du mouvement pacifiste are well known, and its obliging hon.

The " seminary system " came into being - that is, the custom of obliging candidates for ordination to spend several years in a theological college, whence lay influences were carefully excluded.

He held a parliament at Trim which made one law against men of English race wearing moustaches, lest they should be mistaken for Irishmen, and another obliging the sons of agricultural labourers to follow their father's vocation under pain of fine and imprisonment.

During the next forty years of his life he enjoyed great influence in Geneva as the advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the Formula Consensus Helvetica was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725.

Between 1528 and 1540 armies of Mahommedans, under the renowned general Mahommed Gran (or Granye, probably a Somali or a Galla), entered Abyssinia from the low country to the south-east, and overran the kingdom, obliging the emperor to take refuge in the mountain fastnesses.