Sentence examples similar to accepted duties from inspiring English sources

Instead of just one class reading "Catcher in the Rye," half the school read it — not as a sullenly accepted duty but as an act of curiosity and rebellion, a rite of passage, an unexpected gift.

After being separated from his family for much of his career, Preble in 1859 accepted duty as the lighthouse inspector along the Maine and New Hampshire coasts, a job that enabled him to stay closer to home with his wife and three surviving children.

Champagne told Reuters that Canada would not accept duties or quotas from the United States.

Brad Pitt, one of the producers and stars, accepted the honor and then handed off accepting duties to director and fellow producer Steve McQueen.

The State has a duty to accept responsibility for these areas, and it has been argued that the State should use some of the considerable revenue that it received from asbestos mining to compensate environmentally acquired ARDs and to ensure that contaminated areas are rehabilitated.

I'm tempted to say that the committee members accepted their duties in the same lighthearted spirit of the list.

After Archbishop Weakland's retirement was accepted, his duties were assumed by Richard J. Sklba, an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese.

The paper assumes that policy makers and donors have accepted the duty of rescue and the people also have a duty to respond to rescue efforts, see Collier et al. [9].

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

"Furthermore, it betrays an attitude that risks not only the security of our country and our citizens at home and abroad – the safeguarding of which is the accepted first duty of any government – but also European collective defence".

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.