Sentence examples for a paramount duty from inspiring English sources

Mayor Koch said Mr. Maddox had a right to conduct his case as he chose and had a "paramount duty" to his client.

It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders.

They also worried about their burial sites; as in much of rural South Korea, worshiping ancestors is common here and protecting graves from anything deemed an impurity is a paramount duty for the living.

Loyalty to the president and his family was made a paramount duty, and Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, founded an elitist underground organization to spy on officials, army officers, and prominent local citizens.

The ruling by Judge L. Ralph Smith Jr. of the Circuit Court of Florida focuses on a provision of the Florida Constitution that declares education a "fundamental value" of the state and says it is a "paramount duty" to provide a "uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high quality system of free public schools".

The Foreign Office is, as always, treading a tightrope between the paramount duty to protect British citizens and the risk of damaging an ally.

She had given birth to three boys in a row at a time when South Korean women considered it their paramount duty to bear a son.

Miłosz was the first writer and intellectual of such distinction to defect from the Soviet bloc, and the first to give his reasons publicly, saying that a lie is the source of all crime and that "the paramount duty of a poet is to tell the truth".

In such a case he must serve "his paramount duty to represent the public interest," withdraw from his other representations and consent to their employment of special counsel.

"He felt his paramount duty was the appointment of a strong faculty," said David Alexander, president of the college.

Firstly, there was the "chilling effect" of such claims, making witnesses reluctant to give frank evidence or to provide expert evidence at all; secondly, the risk that an expert witness would be reluctant to comply with his paramount duty to the court if to do so involved giving evidence contrary to his client's interest with a risk of being sued for doing so.