Sentence examples for duty lay from inspiring English sources
He saw where his duty lay.
Still higher above the literal and the allegorical levels, the reader came to the tropological level, which told him where his moral duty lay.
Dominican-born, Cuban-bred Camila Henriquez Urena didn't wait for an American politician to tell her where her patriotic duty lay.
Alan Stevenson, RLS's uncle, shared his nephew's literary bent and befriended Wordsworth, but, once persuaded where his duty lay, he accepted the challenge zealously.
He describes the blurry line between civility and collaboration drinking with Germans in a café was acceptable; inviting them home was not and citizens' confusion about where their patriotic duty lay.
These two reports raised in an acute form the question of where Britain's duty lay if its specific obligations to the Zionists under the Balfour Declaration clashed with its general obligations to the Arabs under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Nevertheless, we know where our duty lies, and it is not in celebrity name-dropping.
He knows where his duty lies, and Clara gets her man in time for Christmas.
We swear an oath to the Queen as head of state, our duty lies to the public, not the government.
He is likely to remind a broadly sympathetic Congress where America's duty lies in confronting the "existential threat" to Israel.
The Food Standards Agency says duty lies within the remit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRAA), the Governmental agency with responsibility for standards of safety, quality and performance.
