Sentence examples for duties to him from inspiring English sources

Staupitz had been Luther's confessor at Erfurt, and when he found himself overworked at Wittenberg he summoned Luther, persuaded him to take a doctorate, and handed over many of his duties to him.

Mercury complains that the older gods are lazy and leave all their duties to him, while he gets no credit for all his drudgery.

The new adherents swear their allegiance to Diablo and promise to fulfill their duties to him on pain of loss of their souls forever.

Mr. Tzaras cannot complain that the bank breached a duty to him the bank says, "because, simply, none was owed".

After resting for the night, he and Hiltgunt continue their journey and are attacked in open country by Guntharius and Hagano, who has hitherto refrained from taking arms against his friend but is finally persuaded by his master that his duty to him now requires it.

Ross's view is that 'to make a promise is not merely to adapt an ingenious device for promoting the general well-being; it is to put oneself in a new relation to one person in particular, a relation which creates a specifically new prima facie duty to him, not reducible to the duty of promoting the general well-being of society' (RG 38).

"The moment I signed on I understood my duty to him and his family.

Friends finally secured him a coveted commission as an officer, and his superiors in the Second Kansas relieved him of his duties to enable him to accept it.

There, he learned that the India Office had requested that the army relieve him of his duties to permit him to be appointed Director General of Archaeology in India.

But if he's receiving threats, it's the university's duty to protect him, not suspend him.

Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England said: "Far too many opportunities to intervene to stop the abuse Daniel experienced during his short life were missed by those around him who had a duty to protect him".