obliger

Cela aurait obligé la WAK à rembourser ces fonds.
This would have led to WAK being obliged to repay these funds.
La présentation d'une telle requête aurait obligé la municipalité à accepter la plainte en révision et à examiner la situation sur le plan des faits.
Presentation of such a petition would have obliged the municipality to accept the petition for review and to examine the factual situation.
Dans ces cas-là, un engagement aurait obligé le producteur-exportateur concerné à ne pas vendre au-dessous du niveau de prix qui aurait éliminé le préjudice important.
In such cases, an undertaking would have committed the respective exporting producer not to sell below such price level that would have eliminated injurious dumping.
Il était pauvre et il voulait partir en Espagne pour gagner un peu d’argent pour sa famille, mais tout cela l’aurait obligé à collaborer avec des gens peu recommandables.
He was poor and wanted to travel to Spain to earn some money to support his family, but it involved engaging in activity with people who were unrighteous.
Ceci nous permettra d'affronter plus facilement un problème face auquel nous serions autrement prisonniers de la politique à l'ancienne, et qui nous aurait obligé à agiter le spectre de M. Berlusconi pour nous faire pardonner nos erreurs.
This will make it easier to shoulder a problem in which we would otherwise have been held to ransom by old-school politics and would have needed to raise the spectre of Mr Berlusconi to feel absolved from our mistakes.
Les échafaudages furent montés en 1495 et Léonard travailla à son rythme et dans son style : il écarta la fresque qui l’aurait obligé à adopter d’autres rythmes et peignit à la détrempe avec le résultat catastrophique que l’on sait.
The scaffolding was erected in 1495 and Leonardo worked in his own time and style, shunning fresco work which would have imposed quite a different rhythm on him and using tempera instead, with the well known catastrophic results.
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