Sentence examples for it is a duty of from inspiring English sources

And Steve Gillan, of the Prison Officers Association told BBC Radio 4's Today programme his trade union was opposed to private prisons in concept and because it believes "it is a duty of the state" to handle justice and not for share holders who would be "gaining from incarceration".

It is a duty of the totem to guard the ritualist and the medicine man while he is asleep.

"I believe it is a duty of every cyclist to speak up - gently, nonconfrontationally - in such situations," Mr. Cohen said.

I think it is a duty of all EU member states to support the countries under a strong migration pressure.

He said, "It is a duty of humanity to acknowledge that Armenians remember the suffering of that period, just like every other citizen of the Ottoman empire".

Sunnis could vote in other areas of the country, and the voice over the loudspeaker at one Sunni mosque in Baghdad exhorted them to do so, saying, "It is a duty of every Muslim".

Dancers work under immense physical and mental stress, and it's a duty of care in every school and company to ensure their health.

The OECD report shows that there are enough British immigrants living abroad for this to be more than just a thought exercise; it's a duty of care we owe the international community.

Brady Hoke majored in criminal justice at Ball State and had a clear goal in mind: "I wanted to go into the Secret Service and protect the president; I really felt like it was a duty of mine".

Mr Robinson said that it was a duty of any preacher to denounce what he described as "false prophesy".

He added that it was a duty of any preacher to denounce what he described as "false prophesy".