Sentence examples for duty upon from inspiring English sources

One Muslim suitor was magnanimous, saying marriage is the cradle of civilisation and a moral duty upon me.

There was absolutely no duty upon the part of the city to provide protection to this plaintiff against any such unknown and unsuspected individual".

"When a woman like Amal is widowed, it is a duty upon all Muslims to look after her and ensure her safety.

The crisis, he said, "imposes a duty upon the authorities to listen, to discuss and at the same time a great determination to act".

There is, in fact, a first duty upon the offending State to hand over the person in question to the State in whose territory he was apprehended.

"The danger about the current wording of section 75 is that it seems to put a duty upon the commissioners to go for competition with all contracts that are made [by CCGs].

Tuition for cadets is fully funded by the Army in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation.

They may make disqualifications dependent upon the tenure of freehold estate, upon the payment of tax, upon militia duty, or upon the color of skin; but whoever the State chooses to confer her political authority upon, are the people".

James finally assumed his royal duties upon his marriage to Mary of Gueldres in 1449.

The M.P.s in the 372nd had been assigned to routine traffic and police duties upon their arrival in Iraq, in the spring of 2003.

At one time "natural rights", as they were called, referred to those moral rights we have against all others (with correlative duties upon them).