Sentence examples for duties lie from inspiring English sources

There are certain central government officials whose duties lie in the sphere of local government.

As the charity's co-founder James Perry says, for directors worried about where their legal duties lie, a law "gives you a fighting chance, or a platform" to act in the interests of society and the environment.

"They saw the thing more as a sin than a crime, and probably weren't advised strictly enough as to where their duties lay when an allegation came to them".

Here are some of the political dragons whose failure to perform assigned duties lies hidden behind the Court's order.

He saw where his duty lay.

Nevertheless, we know where our duty lies, and it is not in celebrity name-dropping.

He knows where his duty lies, and Clara gets her man in time for Christmas.

We swear an oath to the Queen as head of state, our duty lies to the public, not the government.

He is likely to remind a broadly sympathetic Congress where America's duty lies in confronting the "existential threat" to Israel.

The Food Standards Agency says duty lies within the remit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRAA), the Governmental agency with responsibility for standards of safety, quality and performance.

Still higher above the literal and the allegorical levels, the reader came to the tropological level, which told him where his moral duty lay.