Sentence examples for holy duty from inspiring English sources
It might, says Inal Pliev, a journalist in Tskhinvali, be Russia's "holy duty", but reality intrudes.
Many Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan see a war with India as a holy duty.
Mr Laham's letter accuses Saudi Arabia, which funds Mr Assad's enemies, of sponsoring schools which are "teaching the ideology of hate, 'takfiri' [a Muslim accusing a fellow Muslim of apostasy] and jihad as holy duty".
Or is this an extreme example of extractivism: an ideology that sees the defence of destructive industries as a holy duty, even when they trash more income and employment than they create?
Sheikh Abu Saqer, the head of the Salafiya Jihadiya movement in Gaza, called angrily for the conquest and conversion of Rome: "This is a crusader war against Islam, and it is our holy duty to fight all those who support the Pope..
Among Pope Francis's opponents is the evangelical US-based Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, which has written to him arguing that we have a holy duty to keep burning fossil fuel, as "the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork".
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We have a duty, almost a holy responsibility, to record and honour the victorious weight of these innumerable little kindnesses, when an unprecedented act of evil so threatens to distort our perception of ordinary human behaviour.
We have a duty, almost a holy responsibility, to record and honor the victorious weight of these innumerable little kindnesses, when an unprecedented act of evil so threatens to distort our perception of ordinary human behavior.
"In the Islamic system," one brochure explains, "sport serves as one of the best means that helps women better fulfill their holy motherhood duties, educate and present healthy generations to the community".
The delegation's appearance in Geneva was a mandatory part of the Holy See's duties as a signatory of the UN convention on the rights of the child, which it ratified in 1990.
