Sentence examples for duties except from inspiring English sources
Children have no duties, except to their studies and their families.
When news came that the Townshend duties, except for that on tea, had been repealed, his following dwindled.
As for Jerry Jones, well, there is just no other way to view stripping Garrett of play-calling duties except as a step backward.
Such colonial tumult, coupled with the instability of frequently changing British ministries, resulted in repeal on March 5, 1770, the same day as the Boston Massacre of all revenue duties except that on tea, lifting of the Quartering Act requirements, and removal of troops from Boston, which thus temporarily averted hostilities.
Unionized public employees who can't be fired are bad at their jobs and are more interested in increasing their own power than fulfilling their public duties — except if they are police or Border Patrol officers, who are unselfishly devoted to their jobs.
All in all, the campaign worked so well that the merchants found it difficult to extricate themselves when Parliament, in April of 1770, repealed all the duties except one, on tea, which George III thought Parliament should retain so as to "keep up the right".
Nonetheless, some philosophers, including Jeremy Bentham and Hans Kelsen, argue that the content of every legal system can and should be represented solely in terms of duty-imposing and duty-excepting laws.
He is an example to emulate: a poet, not a politician, who acknowledges no duty except making great art.
Trump has given limited information about the nature of his medical ailment from 1968 that left him classified as "1-Y," or unqualified for duty except in the case of a national emergency.
What Graeber wants is a kind of decentralized socialism, with decisions made by a patchwork of local assemblies and coöperatives — at one point, he imagines "something vaguely like jury duty, except non-compulsory".
Being 'specially exempted' implied that the recruit was not called for duty except in the case of an emergency.
