Sentence examples for duties invoked from inspiring English sources

At the Q&A following this morning's Sundance screening of the film, Levitt, who also tackles leading-man duties, invoked his mother's feminism and the compassionate philosophy of Martin Buber as he explained the film's genesis.

The Fourteenth Amendment shows a clear pathway forward, and the President, as a last resort not only has the right, but the duty to invoke it.

He invoked "duty" in an effort to explain his own version of Kantianism.

I no longer believed in God as He had been represented by Christianity, and the moral duty that was invoked sounded an awful lot like the sophistry that Christian extremists used to justify the war in Iraq, or discriminate against gay people.

The right and duty of revolution were then invoked.

After McMaster accepted the position, one of his Army mentors, the retired general David Petraeus, invoked "Dereliction of Duty," asking McMaster, "What will be the title of the book they write about you?" Trump first met McMaster, in February, 2017, at a hastily convened interview at Mar-a-Lago, after the ouster of Flynn.

As prime minister, Netanyahu has consistently invoked his solemn duty to protect Israel's national security.

Thus even if attempts to solve Chisholm's contrary to duty paradox by invoking time do not look very plausible, this does not mean that there is no interesting work needed to forge relationships between time and obligations.

This is not an emergency procedure or an appeal to civic duty — although those can still be invoked on occasion.

If a surgeon can be invoked to eschew his duty of care to a patient on the whim of an executive, which patient is next?

Stop-loss policy, or the involuntary extension of duty for service members, was frequently invoked in the years after 9/11 and affected an estimated 58,000 soldiers until its use was stemmed shortly after President Barack Obama took office in 2008.