Sentence examples for Accept a duty from inspiring English sources

But for an animal to realise its right to life, farmers, hunters and researchers must collectively accept a duty not to kill them.

This brand of "Big Mac" statesmanship would require business to get its head out of the sand and accept a duty to help solve broader social challenges.

The war itself went on – but images of Biafra did at last make the old colonial powers acknowledge Africans as fellow human beings and accept a duty of compassion, periodically rekindled by such pictures as Kevin Carter's 1994 image of a Sudanese child apparently stalked by a vulture.

And so he accepted a duty he could not rightly refuse.

But in other cases – such as the reporting of suspected paedophiles or the investigation of murders – many sections of the media have accepted a duty to deflect as well as reflect the public mood.

Early results show more families' housing problems were sorted before they progressed to the point where the council formally accepted a duty of homelessness, suggesting that more intensive prevention work was helping to keep more people in their homes.

Many fund managers, one suspects, will be horrified by the idea that they could be asked to do more work and accept a few duties and responsibilities.

All we are asking is that UK unions accept they have a duty to behave in a proper and responsible way".

What I am now responsible for and am extremely proud of is making the Met finally accept they have a duty towards victims".

Indeed, well before Basso extended the landowner's duty of reasonable care to all categories of persons who come onto the property, it was well established that "the municipality which extends to its citizens an invitation to enter and use recreational areas owes to those accepting that invitation a duty of reasonable and ordinary care against foreseeable dangers.

"Before the council accepts they have a duty to help you, they wait until you're really on the street basically". It was the week before Christmas when Munoz, who has lived in the UK for 14 years both as a full-time worker and a student and volunteer, attended her eviction case at court.