Sentence examples for Ordinary duty from inspiring English sources

In short, he held for the Court that the First Amendment provides no "exemption from the ordinary duty of all other citizens to furnish relevant information to a grand jury performing an important public function".

These days comparatively few fake antiques enter this country, because the American public is no longer readily fooled Private persons who inadvertently bring in a fake piece pay only the ordinary duty; dealers who import fakes pay an extra 25%.

Uber's vehicles are equipped with several different imaging systems which work both ordinary duty (monitoring nearby cars, signs and lane markings) and extraordinary duty like that just described.

She spent most of the following two years on training runs and ordinary duty.

The staff members involved in paediatric emergencies; nurses, nurse assistants, consultant paediatricians and residents were scheduled for the training sessions during their ordinary duty.

He required that each man maintain his ordinary duties as closely as possible.

A devoted husband and father, he then entered the workaday professional ranks, doing ordinary duties, even to dubious ends, living in comfort and enjoying professional esteem.

Fully their equal in all military virtues, in the ordinary duties of a citizen at home he was immeasurably their superior.

Since the program was created in 1968 in the wake of the civil rights movement, more than 1,200 U.P.S. managers have taken the detour from their ordinary duties to get a taste of life at the low-income barricades.

By contrast, a worker with a dull, repetitive job would inevitably degenerate: "The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life".

The two firms are following Blackstone's lead in one respect, however: neither is letting its shareholders have a vote to elect directors, and both are limiting the application of basic corporate protections like the ordinary duties of good faith, care and loyalty that the boards of public companies owe shareholders.