Sentence examples for duty itself from inspiring English sources

Jury duty itself pays $5 a day.

But though the incentive for duty may be weakened, it's not clear that the duty itself is lightened.

On Maimon's view, one cannot determine whether an action simply accords with the moral law "and hence possesses mere legality" or whether it in fact follows from the motive of duty itself, and as such lays claim to morality.

Imperfect duties, as many Kant scholars have noted, are no less compelling than perfect duties and the distinction between perfect and imperfect duty lies only in the mode of application (to what degree the conditions of its fulfillment are fixed or left to personal choice) rather than in the prescriptive force of the duty itself.

But if we make that move, we suppose that the ground for duty lies in some fact about the agent (that she so supposes), and this makes it much easier to think of the duty itself as attaching to the agent rather than to the act.

The duty itself is laid out in Section 1(1), and is a duty on the people covered by the act "to see that the work which he takes on is done in a workmanlike or, as the case may be, professional manner, with proper materials and so that as regards that work the dwelling will be fit for habitation when completed".

Alternatively, the state could go back to delivering statutory duties itself – wouldn't that be a revolution.

Our results suggest that it is the experience of being on-call rather than the variation in exposure to on-call duties itself that is associated with negative outcomes.

Sometimes duty imposes itself on you.

It is the sound of Call of Duty devouring itself.

But some experts say a halting response by officials constitutes a neglect of duty by itself.