Sentence examples for is duties from inspiring English sources
noun
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
- We don't have a duty to keep you here.
The second act, often called the Townshend duties, imposed direct revenue duties that is, duties aimed not merely at regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury.
An heir, however, could also be instituted by testament, and in his testament the testator could charge his heir with legacies that is, duties to a third party, called a legatee, to whom the heir had to pay certain sums of money or give certain assets of the estate.
Justice involves duties that are perfect duties that is, duties that are correlated with rights (V 15).
Further, if morality includes so-called 'imperfect' duties to benefit others, that is, duties that allow the agent some discretion as to when and how to assist, the lack of any overarching conception of well-being is likely to make the fulfillment of such duties problematic.
Where there is suffering, there is duty.
"Duty is duty, sir," said Ms. Sharma, the principal.
Second order duties in torts are duties of repair.
There are duties beyond those rights-correlated duties.
It might as well be duty-free.
