Sentence examples for duty of trying from inspiring English sources

That means it has the outsize duty of trying to bring together an entire electorate, a large portion of whom just voted for the other candidate.

At Guantanamo, some members of the military are quick to point out that the Pentagon didn't seek out the duty of trying terrorists in the tribunal system, but that it was rather a burden imposed on the military by Congress.

Speaking of Han Solo, in this version he's tasked with the duty of trying to convince his stepfather, a man named Ovan Marekal, to join the Rebel Alliance -- a man who happens to be the third most powerful man in the galaxy.

To wake up and have as the morning's duty the challenge of trying a new surf board, with a group of cheerful British girls--on green waves that curled on a long dry rock beach, nestled in a desert grove, with cacti and salt-dried argan trees in the background (the source, I learned, of a massage oil only to be found in Morocco) -- is quite nice.

It is a common complaint among working mothers that they end up taking on the lion's share of household duties, on top of trying to juggle work and family time.

Children's Food Trust chief executive-designate Linda Cregan said too many people who worked with children were having to go above and beyond the call of duty to try to protect children from the effects of hunger and poor diet.

His duties now include the historic challenge of trying to identify the nearly 20,000 body parts carried to his agency's bleak, even forbidding building.

He is interested by the idea of "a duty to try and achieve an attunement between human nature and the greater scheme of the cosmos".

The F.B.I. had a duty to try to prevent violence of every type, even among criminals.

If the jury comes back deadlocked, he is likely to read a so-called Allen charge -- a strong admonition of a jury's duty to try to reach a consensus -- to break the impasse.

Think of it as our patriotic duty to try.