Sentence examples for devoted to duty from inspiring English sources

In September 2012, he released a brief statement that said, "The father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty".

Although the policies my father enacted are open to debate, the father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty.

It was under Green's influence that the dandy developed into the ascetic, devoted to duty and with a missionary zeal to rescue philosophy from the entropy of scepticism.

Intense, peevish Starsky is so aggressively devoted to duty that he lugs a Thermos with him rather than take a coffee break.

Nicole Kidman was miscast in "The Human Stain"; here, with her flashing eyes and stalk-like body, she's on top of her game again as a minister's daughter devoted to duty but eager to break out.

Every man, however much he may seem to be all logical thinker, critic, scientist, or all absorbed in practical interests or devoted to duty, cherishes at the bottom of his heart his own private store of imagination and poetry; even Faust's pedantic famulus, Wagner, confessed that he often had his "grillenhafte Stunden".

(At the time, constables and justices either were not paid at all or earned a very small stipend that did not compensate them for the time that they devoted to their duties).

All departments are also being advised they are not allow more than 0.1% of the pay bill to be devoted to union duties, down from the present 0.26% average.

For all the talk of teaching, most of Ms. Morgan's time in space is devoted to her duties as an astronaut, including her operation of the shuttle's robotic arm to inspect the shuttle's delicate heat shield for signs of damage.

Such is the current preference for the deal-maker over the titan, no one looks askance when it's reported that Mr. Bush puts in less than banker's hours as chief executive of Texas, much of them devoted to P.R. duties.

Although a good portion of my time is now devoted to administrative duties such as project management, meeting with colleagues, and communicating results in written and oral form, I do make time for laboratory and fieldwork, which still gives me the excitement it did when I was a student.