obliges
Synonyms
Examples
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.