Sentence examples for duty of representing from inspiring English sources

Then he was tapped, in 1957, by the bar association to take on the thankless duty of representing the accused Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, who was to go on trial in Brooklyn and potentially faced the death penalty.

This means that the eighteen jurors who are eventually seated will face the difficult, if not impossible, task of separating their duty of representing the community as jurors from the outrage they may feel as members of a community that was attacked, by proxy, when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon.

Is it right for a Senator to abandon his duties of representing his constituents, a service he is paid to do? Missing votes and intelligence briefings don't square with Rubio's recent statements about federal workers whom he wants to fire for not doing their jobs.

But few have had as harrowing a duty as that of representing the mass killer responsible for the deaths of 77 people in the bomb and gun attacks that traumatized Norway last July.

I wondered if along the way they had lost sight of their duty to represent the interests of their constituents.

Charles Swift, who represents one of two detainees who have been assigned lawyers, said in an interview that though the brief was extraordinary, "It was unavoidable as part of our duty to represent the interests of our clients".

The judiciary was regarded as the "third arm of the constitution", with a duty to represent the interests of the citizen and uphold the rule of law.

It is the responsibility of Labour politicians to remember our duty to represent the will of our party and the Labour movement to fight for working people, and not to fight each other".

"This flight delay prevented me from carrying out my Constitutional duty to represent the people of southern West Virginia".

They disrupted concerts given by and at the Concertgebouw, demanding greater representation of new music on Concertgebouw programmes and saying that the orchestra had a duty to represent the whole of Dutch society and not just a small social fraction of it.

The letter expressed concern that the bank's connections to groups such as the Securities Industry Association "may be at odds with the duty to represent the best interests of our plans and its beneficiaries".Political supporters of Mr Bush's proposals are fighting back.