The railwayman on duty phoned the cabin: Fyodorov was to check the switches and signal "Line clear" so that the express could pass.
NED (starting): Ha! MALLOY: I thought it my duty to phone and let her know what had happened.
He said that he was regularly woken at night by calls to the embassy duty mobile phone.
His duties are familiar - receiving case files, typing, reception duty, taking phone calls - but for Tate, the context of the work makes it interesting.
When the practice's echocardiographers or nuclear technologists are done with their technical duties, they phone patients with reminders or to set up appointments.
In many parts of the developing world, the enormous potential of mobile networking is not being realised thanks to excessive import duties on phones and network equipment.
The next day, Tuesday, Baquet had jury duty, and his phone was shut off for most of the day.
But she relented on his last day of ambulance duty, giving her phone number along with assistance to the patient he had wheeled in.
(In addition to phone duty, she also made transcriptions for "A Novel," and months later, typing up a conversation from that day, she came across Ondine plotting to hire Ms. Naso and her friend).
It's a huge responsibility, this membership, and though I don't remember ever asking for it, I've always been perfectly willing to do my duty when the phone rings during dinner and it's the Gallup folks asking me to speak for millions of other people so someone can write a headline the next morning purporting to tell America what it feels.
(607 Male aged 18 years) However, some young adults were aware of the way the appointments system operated which appeared to be acceptable and suitable to them: "If you ring up before 10 in the morning they well get almost like a duty doctor to phone you back … and they will decide if you need to be seen that day or within three days, so it's very, very quick there".
