obliger

L'arnaque se trouve dans le fait que si vous lisez peu vous vous retrouvez obliger de payer une selection de livres faite par eux.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

For the meaning of obligé in the era of Samuel de Champlain, see Le Grand Robert de la langue française, 6:2050–52, s.v., “obliger.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

For the meaning of obligé in the era of Samuel de Champlain, see Le Grand Robert de la langue française, 6:2050–52, s.v., “obliger.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

But to have received benefits from one whom we acknowledge for superior inclines to love; because the obligation is no new depression: and cheerful acceptation (which men call gratitude) is such an honour done to the obliger as is taken generally for retribution.

Leviathan 2007

Sir Charles Who that lies under obligations which they cannot return, can view the obliger but with the most delicate sensibility?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

- And this being kept in mind, will always contribute to make the benefited receive, as thankfully as they ought, the favours of the obliger.

Pamela 2006

What need you give one to imagine, my dear, that the last month or two has been a period extremely favourable to that other person, whom it has made an obliger of the niece for his patience with the uncles.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And will she not think herself the obliged, rather than the obliger?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The notions of the obliged are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

La seule solution consisterait à recourir à des législations internationales assez contraignantes pour obliger les gouvernements nationaux à respecter et à faire respecter la langue nationale dans leur propre pays (le français en France, le roumain en Roumanie, etc.), cela dans tous les domaines et pas seulement sur internet.

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert