The latest example is a bad-boy French bistro on the Lower East Side; in theory, there's an African twist to the place, but, despite the ceiling fans, the tiger-stripe stencils, and the cassava fries, it still falls a few duty-free masks short of a theme.
They had lavish living quarters and generous salaries, and many had few duties beyond attending dinners and parties.
As Prime Minister to a dictator, he had few duties, and had used his trips abroad to slip out and walk around in foreign cities.
There were a few duties split up among the three directors, but essentially they would make decisions together, and those decisions had to be arrived at by consensus.
Many fund managers, one suspects, will be horrified by the idea that they could be asked to do more work and accept a few duties and responsibilities.
Although at first Goethe had few duties beyond accompanying Charles Augustus and arranging court entertainments, he soon began to accumulate more prosaic responsibilities and was, initially at least, motivated by the idea of a reformed principality governed, in accordance with Enlightenment principles, for the benefit of all its subjects and not just of the landowning nobility.
Last year, almost three million people arrived during the festival, their purchasing power strengthened by widespread price reductions on shopping and hotels -- on top of an already near-total absence of taxes and the fact that merchants can import foreign products with very few duties or tariffs.
There seem to be few duties endorsing cloning Neanderthals.
To make room for Ulanoff, former editor-in-chief Adam Ostrow was exiled to a position of Executive Editor with few duties and virtually no one reporting to him.
Some respondents noted that having fewer duty hours can actually pose a threat to the quality of care by reducing opportunities to make important decisions and to gain medical and clinical knowledge.
This is partially a reflection of the fact that local authorities now have fewer duties towards schools, with some funding having been "transferred" from local authorities to academies.
