Alice Kahn, writer (1943–)"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences".
"President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders".
In the war on terror, we are given to understand that it is our patriotic duty to surrender our civil rights.
After all, he asked, "are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?" He "could but perform this duty, or surrender the existence of the government".
President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders, and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona.
Officer Rivera has been placed on desk duty and has surrendered his gun, a standard procedure in an Internal Affairs investigation.
The officers could be suspended without pay or placed on desk duty, forced to surrender their guns and shields, officials said.
XXX According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, an X scrawled on a beer cask used to indicate that the brewer had surrendered the sufficient duty to the government for selling the stuff.
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle ordered Mr. Assange's supporters to pay $150,000 by Nov. 6, saying that while he accepted that they had acted in good faith, they had failed in their "basic duty" to ensure that Mr. Assange surrendered.
An invertebrate Congress has virtually defaulted on its constitutional oversight duties by meekly surrendering to presidential claims of privilege or state secrets or eschewing hearings on overriding issues like war and peace.
