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It was my duty to do that.
It is Tom's duty to check out this place twice a day.
Tom said that it wasn't his duty to take care of Mary.
You must perform your duty.
The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.
Smoking on duty is not allowed.
Don't smoke while you are on duty.
It is the students' duty to clean their classrooms.
You must do your duty.
Duty should come before anything else.
How many cigarettes am I allowed to take back duty free?
England expects that every man will do his duty.
At any rate, I did my duty.
I was off duty at the time.
You had better not smoke while on duty.
What time are you going on duty?
Try to fulfill your duty.
I'm still on duty.
Who is on duty?
The policeman was off duty.
The policeman is now on duty.
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Why else would he volunteer to be on duty on the 25th?
You can wait here until a duty solicitor arrives.
Duty calls, Miss Bloom.
We did our duty.
You're back on active duty.
My duty is to act in my patient's best interests.
We have a duty to her, not to her family.
And I have a duty to the hospital.
I do this out of duty.
Go, do your duty for Jehovah.
I have to do my duty!
Off duty.
Charity - to some a duty, to others a joy.
Heavy and gloomy is the sleep of the off duty.
For what occurred there. It may have been my duty, but I tried to kill you.
I was only doing my duty.
It is now my duty to point out to you that the profession of a spy is the most ignoble calling on earth.
Are you going to be off duty pretty soon?
As a matter of record, tell me why a woman charged with important work should permit or aid the escape of a dangerous enemy, why she should dishonour the service, violate duty because of a casual affection for that man.
She told how she'd done her duty in the great war or the sea.
And if I seem to touch on matters that are how shall I say it, too intimate, you must forgive me it is because of my duty.
Not at all, madame, I'm simply doing my duty.
It's your duty to go.
I had hoped to avoid bringing to court a brave young officer recently blinded in the course of heroic duty.
But I mustn't let it interfere with my duty.
I'll go tonight, when Inspector Lane's on duty.
It is your duty.
Last night I was too hungry to sleep. and tonight, when I get the wrinkles out of my gut, they think up wiring duty.
Of course, you do your duty and you risk your life.
They have gone bravely, nobly, ever forward. realizing there is no other duty now but to save the fatherland.
The young men thought I was a coward because I told them that. we learn that death is stronger than duty to one's country.
Your sense of duty is as impregnable as Gibraltar.
The faith allows the believer, once in life, to place. piety above duty.
I PRESUME YOUR STUPIDITY ALL COMES UNDER THE HEAD OF DUTY.
I'M ON DUTY HERE, AND THIS PLACE IS THREATENED, AND I'M GOING TO STAY HERE.
SONIA, WERE YOU ON DUTY LAST NIGHT AS PER INSTRUCTIONS?
This is merely a friendly warning that any usher caught chewing gum during the performance of duty will be dismissed.
Say, buddy, I'm off duty tomorrow.
So, you seen your duty and you done it, huh?
Just as we have always done our duty to you in the past. so too in the future, we await your orders alone.
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Indeed, it is our duty, and the very basis of any successful civilization, that important decisions are made only after scrutinizing all relevant information and weighing the relative merits of every position.
In his protracted moment of death, Yasir Arafat performed his last act of duty to the Palestinian cause to which he devoted his entire life.
But, to lawyers like the ICC prosecutor, the abstract claims of justice are more vivid than any concrete duty of protection.
So, if massive use of force fails, how is a big country, believing that its interests or moral duty compel it to intervene in the affairs of a small one, to do so successfully?
He told them that he rejected cruelty to animals, but insisted that it was his duty to promote the interests of people before dogs.
So politicians everywhere must do their duty and exercise responsible leadership.
Complicating matters, the same act involving the same genes, muscles and so forth, can sometimes be seen as criminally aggressive and sometimes as doing your duty.
Take the case of the British soldier Lee Clegg who, while on duty in Northern Ireland, shot and killed a teenage joyrider whose car failed to stop at a security check.
Petraeus violated his own personal code of honor and duty toward his wife and family - and thus, in his eyes, toward his country, particularly to the men and women whom he was entrusted to lead at the CIA.
When his affair came to light, he faced up to his failure, took responsibility for the consequences, and did what he believed that duty, honor, and country required.
These officials must now carry out their most fundamental duty: to govern.
Muslims are convinced of the absolute superiority of Islam, which is reflected in the constant invocation and desperate desire to revive past glory, as well as a positive duty to convert followers of other religions.
When conventional interest-rate policy becomes impotent, its duty is to rely on other instruments.
In 1953, at the age of 25 and already a wounded veteran of the 1947-49 War of Independence, Sharon was recalled to active duty to establish Israel's first commando unit.
The world's democracies have declared that they will not allow Iran to possess nuclear arms; it is their duty to follow through on that commitment, before doing so becomes impossible.
Beyond the short-term challenges ahead, we all have a duty to profoundly change the way we prepare our children to cope with today's new world.
If the fiction is maintained that the court was merely doing its judicial duty as it saw it, decency could still prevail: Anwar could be granted executive clemency.
It will continue to live up to her traditional values and responsibilities, based on democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights, openness, tolerance, humanitarian solidarity, a sense of duty and reliability.
There is a danger that in the push to nationalize banks as a consequence of the financial crisis, governments will see it as their duty to implement strategies.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
He is someone who had long since reached the point in life when he felt compelled by duty and patriotism to step beyond the role of a surgeon and become a public citizen.
Success in that war is not pre-ordained, but can only be won through willing sacrifice, faithfulness to duty, and concerted action for our people's well-being.
A soldier has a duty just to carry out the orders of his chiefs, no matter who they are and no matter what orders they give.
Fortunately for East Asia, most seem to approach power with a keen sense of duty and a commitment to strengthening their countries.