Sentence examples for duty to prepare from inspiring English sources

SHAUN BURNS, Nottingham No – we have a duty to prepare the country for a pandemic.

The director general of the W.T.O., Mike Moore, said the organization was "doing our duty to prepare ourselves for Doha".

Maybe it was a '70s thing, but my mom thought it was her duty to prepare her kids for the tricky ways of police interrogators.

The expensive English schools that provided me with what we must call an education saw it as their duty to prepare us for the burdens of imperial rule.

He could even suggest - as he did to the American Congress - that the September dossier represented the worst of all possible scenarios and that, however improbable, it was his duty to prepare against it.

Senator Warner raised the specter of Vietnam, Somalia and even the operations in Iraq, when he said it was the president's duty to prepare the American public for possible casualties if troops were sent to Liberia.

The White House is playing down the time Mr Obama will have to take off from his presidential duties to prepare for the showdown in November next year, saying it expects the campaign to be relatively subdued until spring 2012, but his campaign staff hope to stuff his war chest with money from rich supporters long before a Republican challenger is nominated.

Sir Bruce, who has already faced calls from junior calls to resign over revelations Whitehall officials 'sexed-up' an official letter to the BMA about the risks that would be posed by a terror attack during the strike, said he was only ensuring hospitals met their legal duties to prepare for emergencies.

Stress and anxiety experienced during the two weeks that the officer was given off from regular duties to prepare for the inquest "resulted in him appearing to make a flippant remark on impulse and as an act of bravado", it said.

Their duty was to prepare art and text for elaborate public displays glorifying the king's triumphs.

But Webb accepted that a father's highest duty was to prepare his son for manhood by teaching him to fight, to hunt, and to handle a weapon.