Sentence examples for Direct duties from inspiring English sources

"Even a very preliminary analysis shows that as the basis of these disasters, as a rule, there lies a failure by officials to carry out their direct duties adequately," he said at the time.

"Even a very preliminary analysis shows that as the basis of these disasters, as a rule, there lies a failure by officials to carry out their direct duties adequately".

"The Russian Federation - and knowledge of this is one of the direct duties of the foreign ministry - has accepted the jurisdiction of the European convention on human rights, under which defence of human rights is not an internal matter of any state but one of the values that stand above national legislation," he told the Interfax news agency.

In the context of intergenerational ethics, such theories rely on indirect reciprocity, where duties to the future are owed in response to what one has received from the past, or on a chain of obligation, where the present generation has direct duties only toward those descendants that overlap with itself.

Briefly, this is the view that all the moral duties we have towards the environment are derived from our direct duties to its human inhabitants.

He outlines two ways that animals might be protected without being the recipients of justice; first, they may be owed direct duties outside of justice, or, second, they might be protected by means of indirect duties, meaning that they are protected because of what humans owe to one another.

G4S's barrister, Scott Matthewson, denied that the company owed Graham a direct duty of care.

A spokesman for the Home Office said public sector employers, who have a direct duty to abide by the Human Rights Act, had already been advised of the risk of a human rights challenge.

Respondents further contend that Ernst & Ernst owed them a direct duty under § 17(a) of the 1934 Act and Rule 17a-5 to conduct a proper audit of First Securities and that they may base a private cause of action against Ernst & Ernst for violation of that duty.

The court concluded that the duty of inquiry imposed on Ernst & Ernst under § 17(a) was "grounded on a concern for the protection of investors such as (respondents)," without reaching the question whether the statute imposed a "direct duty" to the respondents.

But they added that any land owner has a direct duty for the animals' welfare if they are found on their land.