Sentence examples for basic duty of from inspiring English sources

GPs must fulfil their basic duty of care.

"After all," he said, "the basic duty of the government is to defend its citizens".

Passing appropriations bills is the most basic duty of Congress, and often the most contentious.

And this afternoon the jury delivered a narrative verdict, which was damning of all the services involved, and concluded that Rigg would still be alive if he had been shown a basic duty of care.

Obviously they were right before 1991, but in at least one important respect they are still right: "the system" is failing in its basic duty of assuring the rule of law.

Vatican II officially ended the colonial phase of missions and declared that "the whole Church is missionary, and the work of evangelization is a basic duty of the People of God".

One of the basic duties of any brokerage firm is to keep track of customer accounts on a daily basis.

And the lack of a budget has short-circuited the process of passing the annual spending bills -- one of the basic duties of Congress.

Social institutions that should be protecting vulnerable women – the police, doctors and the Women's Federation – seem to be seriously failing in basic duties of care.

Also discusses the basic duties of his job: observations, reporting, etc. Joe Schenk, a meteorological technician, is also quoted in the article.

This was not a scholastic argument of the kind so beloved of coalition ministers but a simple restatement of one of the most basic duties of government: where your poorest and most vulnerable citizens go hungry, you must feed them.