Sentence examples for duties led from inspiring English sources

Conflicts between Bradburn and the settlers in the region over land rights, slavery laws, and customs duties led to the Anahuac Disturbances, a prelude to the larger Texas rebellion.

Difference of opinion between Kruger and Rhodes over the distribution of the profits from customs duties led to the Drifts Crisis of September October 1895: the Cape Colony avoided the Transvaal railway fees by using wagons instead.

The observance of the daily obligations, including the care of bodily purity and professional duties, leads to earthly reward and helps to preserve the state of sanctity required to enter into contact with the divine.

Robert Dziedziech, 44, who has been at the parks department for almost 10 years but was doing his first-ever snow duty, led the pack.

Faith led Garrett Swasey to a career in public service and pastoral care, and duty led him to a Planned Parenthood clinic where he was gunned down in a standoff.

We go to the cemeteries not only to remember the dead, but also to consecrate life, to refresh our sense of obligation in the presence of men and women whom duty led into the hardest places.

It may be true that in order to write well you have to sit down at the word processor and open a vein, but my joy at reading Joe Queenan's brilliantly witty "Ghosts in the Machine" was stifled when I imagined the horrors through which his devotion to duty led him.

Unfortunately his keen sense of duty led to his walking through a rainstorm in late 1864, and then lecturing in wet clothes.

The only way we will see real change, as opposed to cover-up, is for those responsible for this disaster at the highest levels to be sacked - just as they would be in other jobs where dereliction of duty leads to innocent lives being wrecked.

José's insistence that, despite Carmen's blandishments, he must return to duty leads to a quarrel; the arrival of Zuniga, the consequent fight and José's unavoidable ensnarement into the lawless life culminates musically in the triumphant hymn to freedom that closes the act.

But Wang's abrupt transferral to non-police duties last week led to claims that the two men had fallen out.