The exemption from compulsory service of a growing number of yeshiva students -- 30,000 this year -- has embittered many secular Israelis, who accuse the strictly Orthodox of shirking a duty borne by the rest of society.
In his speech to assembled dignatories, British chairman Fleck spoke of "an Australian landmark", "a Commonwealth occasion", and of the duty borne by companies "to see that the buildings they commission shall be not only appropriate to their needs and efficient, but also aesthetically satisfying".
Prior to that date political conceptions and ideals of social and economic duty bore the stamp of British heritage; thereafter the spirit of American democracy made rapid progress.
On these facts, there is no reason to suppose that this duty bears the right relation to institutional practice, as that was changed by the legislation, which would qualify it is as genuine legal duty whose recognition and enforcement would serve principled consistency.
Lacking the equipment required to drill a rescue shaft, the authorities had been forced to requisition a heavy-duty bore from Bremen (approximately 100 miles, or 160 kilometres, away); the considerable time needed to transport the device by rail to Lengede had severely reduced the chances of a successful recovery.
In this thought experiment, Shun shapes his reaction to a touchy situation according to his different, yet conflicting duties, and his way of doing this represents the gradation of values which Mencius thinks these duties bear: the father-son relationship is more important than the ruler-subjects one.
First, the duty to obey the law is general both in the sense that it is a duty to obey the entire body of law in a given jurisdiction and in the sense that the duty is borne by all those living within that jurisdiction.
"I am convinced that all those who failed to carry out their duty will bear responsibility," he said, adding that current laws were "ineffective".
The relentless and highly successful attacks on Iraqi security forces have underscored their profound weakness and raised serious doubts about President Bush's assertions that Iraqis will soon be able to shoulder policing duties now borne by the 138,000 American troops here.
The Times review felt that it "pile[d] on the horrors … a little unnecessarily", but Julia's agony is as captivating as it is dreadful: Jesse wants us to be unable to look away from it – as if, as members of the society in whose name she is being destroyed, we have a duty to bear witness to her destruction, a duty to watch.
We have a duty to bear passionate, accurate, personal witness — to be something more than mere compilers of facts.
