Sentence examples for In duty bound from inspiring English sources

Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

On the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War in 1899, he argued that the Indians, who claimed the full rights of citizenship in the British crown colony of Natal, were in duty bound to defend it.

They hint at the sense of the sometimes dreadful office of President, as when Whitman looked at Lincoln upon attending his second inauguration and saw him "drest all in black, with white kid gloves and a claw-hammer coat, receiving, as in duty bound, shaking hands, looking very disconsolate, and as if he would give anything to be somewhere else".

Regardless of how we had come to be taking this oath, all the different sorts of recruits must make the same noises: "…and that I will, as in duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in person, crown and dignity against all enemies …" we droned.

To accomplish the task set him by God of preserving his subjects in the true Catholic religion, Philip felt in duty bound to use his royal powers, if need be, to the point of the most ruthless political tyranny, as he did in the Netherlands.

Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which, in duty bound, we have to take.

However there is a tactic – let us call it the Perth Protocol – in which the well-directed bouncer and the delivery that is back of a good length are used not simply as a softener, nor even as a potential wicket-taker (although that would be bonus) but to push the batsman back in the crease so that hemmed in, he feels duty bound to have a go at anything pitched temptingly up for the drive.

But it's downright dangerous for this president to saddle his successor with a lopsided proposal that voters in Israel are duty bound to reject.

"In Canada, we're duty bound to ensure the safety of everyone at the Games".

Those of us in public health are duty bound to identify these very practices, and do our utmost to propagate them.

In fact, we are all duty bound to do it because we are spending taxpayers' money.