Sentence examples for duties pressed from inspiring English sources

Again, other duties pressed and I set it aside.

And even Ayatollah Saanei does not compromise on hejab, which he firmly pronounced a duty when pressed to specify where in the Koran the Iranian form of covering women had been described.

When it comes to fresh garlic, here's about the most serious, heavy-duty press you can apply to it.

On Saturday lunchtime, my heart sank as the DCMS duty press officer explained that I was a large part of the front page splash in the Sunday Times.

Disciplinary action was pending from this when, after losing in the first round of the 1990 World Championship at the Crucible, he punched the WPBSA's duty press officer on his way to the obligatory press conference.

(I did ask HM Treasury for more details but the duty press officer said everyone was likely to be very busy with today's Autumn Statement. In other words: the driverless future can wait).

The investigation also uncovered a makeshift heavy-duty press, which police believe was used to compress the bricks of heroin.

If you are calling out of a sense of duty and obligation, press three.

Despite the verdict, the CPS said it had a duty to press charges.

Mr Bush also has a duty to press China on its systematically abysmal human-rights record although America's own ambivalence on torture and lapses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay have made its lectures easier to ignore.The second imperative is for America to find a way to work harmoniously alongside a China that is just beginning to find its way as a great power.

Since it is believed that "hands do Devil's work," these holy men must be serviced by devotees, who find themselves, in a campy rerun of Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale," pressed into duties that include bathing the holy men, spooning food into their mouths, cleaning their teeth, dressing and undressing them, massaging and masturbating them.