Sentence examples for accepting duties from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

She had just come from a tour in Rio de Janiero and had great expectations for her first experience at heading up an embassy and accepting the duties and perquisites of the office.

Accepting this duty would require significant changes in how nations now respond to global poverty and failed states.

If you're going to use a broker, ask him or her to sign a document accepting fiduciary duty for your account.

Nevertheless, preconception moral duties will often be weighty and reluctance to accept such duties on account of the burden they impose do not warrant preconception insouciance.

We accept the duties of our generation.

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