Sentence examples for dangerous duties from inspiring English sources

A short time later, the Swift boats were assigned exceptionally dangerous duties up Vietnamese rivers.

Women also diffuse bombs and lead convoys, among countless other dangerous duties.

When John Kerry graduated from college, he volunteered for military service, volunteered to go to Vietnam, volunteered to captain a Swift boat, one of the most dangerous duties in Vietnam that you could have.

In the lawsuit, she also claimed that the Police Department had denied her a transfer to less dangerous duties and forced her into retirement, depriving her of her salary.

Though the authority's workers perform among New York's most dangerous duties — the union said it had averaged one worker death per year over the last 50 years — Mr. Moore's death was the first on the job for a transit worker since 2010, when a maintenance supervisor fell onto an exposed third rail.

Mr. Monicelli, now 94, is a well-known director of comedy, and this is at times a picaresque tale, as Giovanni and Oreste become slackers-in-arms, using all their wit and skill to avoid difficult and dangerous duties and by hook or by crook to survive the conflict.

It was dangerous duty, and several men tried to get out of the assignment.

Later, Carl and his men had to establish roadblocks, which was notoriously dangerous duty.

After doing so over the last week, here's where I come out: Did Mr. Kerry volunteer for dangerous duty?

After more than a year of hard-driving privation, he's paralyzed by abundance, adrift without the laser-point focus of dangerous duty.

This has raised the dangerous specter of a two-tiered alliance where some members volunteer for the most dangerous duty and others opt out.