Sentence examples for duty violated from inspiring English sources

Duran Kalkan, a member of the PKK's executive committee, stopped short of ordering a full truce but said that attacks on conscripts and other soldiers merely doing their duty violated the group's "views".

We hold then, that in a jail suicide case, a negligent defendant cannot plead, in mitigation of damages, the fact that a plaintiff, to whom she owed a duty, violated a standard of care for his own protection.

The greater the wrong, the greater the punishment deserved; and relative stringency of duty violated (or importance of rights) seems the best way of making sense of greater versus lesser wrongs.

WASHINGTON — The World Trade Organization on Monday upheld the Obama administration's decision last year to impose tariffs of up to 35 percent on tires from China, rejecting a complaint by Beijing that the punitive duties violated international agreements.

The choristers said the extra duties violate their contract, but management argued they were no more than normally called for, according to Italian new reports.

By failing to promote doubles and excluding players from tournaments, they argued, the A.T.P. had breached its fiduciary duty and violated antitrust law.

Such a threshold is fixed in the sense that it does not vary with the stringency of the categorical duty being violated.

It certainly is not bound to stand by as a passive spectator when duties are violated and outrageous frauds are committed.

Holmes, for example, suggests that the foremost duty of justice violated by war is not the duty not to kill aggressors, but rather the duty not to kill innocent, non-aggressive human beings.

The officer has been placed on desk duty for violating protocols during the roadside arrest.

(The others include incapacity, dereliction of duty, and violating Justice Department policies).