Sentence examples for grave duties from inspiring English sources

Rash, though clever, irascible and intemperate, though eloquent and experienced, - with official antecedents which all show a habit of mind and temper totally unfit for the grave duties of a premier, - at any other time public opinion would have stamped such a proposal with its most unequivocal disapprobation.

I thought it a fitting final victory in a life that embodied service and transcended, so often, grave duty, that he had a certain weightlessness about him.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my grave duty to inform you that all intelligence conclusively points to the fact that God already possesses such a capability and could launch it at a moment's notice.

Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others.

Instead, he stressed that the Lehman board had a "grave responsibility," a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

A definite fee is charged for perpetual care, and a charge is made for opening the grave and other duties performed by the sexton or superintendent.

Even one public photograph constitutes a grave dereliction of duty as a parent.

Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) SRI LANKA: POLICE ACCUSED IN SLAYINGS -- The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka said the police were guilty of "grave dereliction of duty" in the massacre of 27 detained Tamil rebels last month.

It highlighted inept border officials who allowed one of his wives to pass into Iran, inept municipal officials who failed to spot the unusual construction at his house, intelligence officials who hoarded information, and senior police officials who it deemed guilty of a "grave dereliction of duty".

He died in September, "performing his jihadi duties," the grave said.

The postwar federal corruption around the grave markers echoed the nauseating duty of post-battle burial.