Sentence examples for conventional duties from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, he was kept busy with more conventional duties, like saving from Eagles and Marcos Alonso as Bolton continued to press.

While scrupulously fulfilling her more conventional duties as wife and mother, Abigail served as John's most trusted confidante and sparring partner, staying informed about, and sometimes challenging him on, the vital issues of the day.

Two column tariff: The initial single column of duties is supplemented by a second column of "conventional" duties, which shows reduced rates agreed through tariff negotiations with other countries.

In 1952 he returned to conventional duty as lieutenant-colonel commanding the Blues.

When not traveling, the DPP-FP30 can be attached to a Windows-based computer for conventional duty.

The conventional duty to speak well of the dead coincided with their own instinct to push an advantage home.

But in Moscow, Georgy Matyushkin, the deputy minister of justice and Russia's envoy to the European Court of Human Rights, told the Interfax news agency that the ruling showed that "the court does not have the conventional duty to investigate the events at Katyn" and that it would thus be "illogical" for it to address allegations of improper treatment of the victims' relatives.

Because of the outcry, the Koevoet troopers were ostensibly reassigned earlier this year to conventional police duties, but in fact their units remained intact.

With political pressure building on Mr. Pastrana not to step up the drug war to the detriment of public security, "we are going to have to make an extra effort in the Colombian budget" to support conventional police duties, he said.

Or, as Christies states in a press release, "they are among the first paintings in the history of art to mark the deliberate freeing of form and colour from their conventional pictorial duties towards the creation of non-material, non-objective and abstract art of the spirit".

The resulting engine is about 55percentt efficient, compared to 40 to 45percentt efficient for conventional heavy-duty diesel engines.