The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.
