Sentence examples for duty applied from inspiring English sources

Think of the common-law concept of fiduciary duty applied to lawyers and agents, transplanted to the public sector.

Whether such a duty applied to those working on Capitol Hill was unclear, according to testimony by Robert Khuzami, the director of the S.E.C.'s enforcement division.

As a result, the average duty applied to all importers would have shot up.To prevent this possibility, foreign shrimp companies were desperate to avoid a reappraisal of the dumping duties.

The same duty applied to other professions, he said, calling for training and new standards "to make sure that we have mechanisms to ensure that the average member of our society can have a reasonable measure of faith in the skills of all the members of these professions".

Nor is it exactly legal, either: taking advantage of Hong Kong's lower prices for imported goods and stricter quality controls that protect it from the food scandals and counterfeiting common in China, they purchase tax-free goods to resell across the border at a premium, with no custom duty applied.

The UK government could decide to harmonise the five different types of excise duty applied to different types of alcohol drinks, or introduce taxes based directly on the alcoholic strength of the drink – a policy already followed in part by the Treasury.

The threshold at which stamp duty applies to home purchases was raised for a year from £125,000 ($222,000) to £175,000.

"However in the act there is a positive duty and we are saying that positive duty applies to the director of public prosecutions".

Alcohol duty is charged on beer, wine and spirits, while tobacco duty applies to cigarettes, cigars, hand-rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco.

The beer industry is layered with different rates of duty applying to different sizes of brewery, varying base ingredients and processes costing different amounts.

BI are tied to each recommendation a broker-dealer makes, whereas an adviser's fiduciary duty applies to the ongoing relationship with a client.