Sentence examples for applied the duty from inspiring English sources

Treasury capitulated immediately and applied the duty beginning in 1979.

As applied to the duty to research, therefore, it cannot be said that paying taxes and medical insurance is necessarily enough to fulfil any existing obligations, or that having paid these entitles us to claim that '[t]here is no further duty to research'.

President Obama had the opportunity to take this program to the next level, by applying the countervailing duty law to currency undervaluation by the Chinese government.

In the years since, he had applied the same tenets of duty and accountability to civilian life.

Applying the categorical imperative, duties arise because failure to fulfil them would either result in a contradiction in conception or in a contradiction in the will.

If any given nation does not apply the tax, an equivalent duty can be applied to their products at ports of entry.

It is important to avoid the temptation (beloved by plaintiffs' lawyers) to apply the principle "radiologists have a duty to interpret radiographs correctly" to specific instances ("radiologists have a duty to interpret this particular radiograph correctly").

In doing so they are assessing risk and fulfilling their duty to apply the law.

At a hearing before his committee earlier this summer, Mr. Hollings accused Mr. Powell of failing to fulfill his duty to apply the law in the public's best interests.

For more than a century, the courts have ruled that juries have no right to decide what the law is, but rather have a duty to apply the law to the facts based on the trial evidence.

She defused some of the main attacks on her by backing away from a past statement that a "wise Latina" judge could decide cases better than a white man and by saying that she saw a judge's duty as applying the law, not making it.