Sentence examples for historical duties from inspiring English sources

We [politicians] are absolutely obliged to accept some historical duties, to play our historical role".

But, while shouldering his historical duties, Teachout does not commit the common error of historicists, the throwing up of hands.

McNally agreed, but would soon put his historical duties on hold when he became the Grateful Dead's first (and only) publicist in 1984.

"I think I have a historical duty".

Here were "the glorious Egyptian people," the generals say, whose demands are the army's "national and historical duty" to respect.

The official line, after all, is clear and compelling: Europe has a moral and historical duty to integrate the new East European democracies into the Union.

Insisting that Greece's leftist-led administration had "a historical duty" to seek compensation for atrocities committed by Nazi forces between 1941-44, the politician in charge of the campaign said on Wednesday that he welcomed the German reaction.

For Washington, as for almost everyone who has wrestled with the story of the end of slavery, the idea of freedom did double historical duty: the word was simultaneously slavery's antonym and one of the keywords of the nation's history, embedded in its Bill of Rights.

The Socialists argued that, 100 years after France was the first country that saw a chemical attack on its soil during the first world war, Paris had a historical duty to stop the "appalling move backwards" of chemical weapons being used today.

I have done my duty and fulfilled my historical responsibility".

Mr. Parrish seems to be an admirer of 19th-century academic painters and their neo-Classical precursors, in particular the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), whose paintings of acts of historical civic devotion, duty and even self-sacrifice exerted a profound and widespread artistic, moral and social influence.