Sentence examples for its most basic duty from inspiring English sources

"The real problem is not that we have built an over-mighty state but that the state is finding it harder to fulfil its most basic duty, which is to protect the public".

Instead this was the one point on which he was silent, refusing to acknowledge that the state was failing in its most basic duty: 96% of these killings went unpunished.

In a speech on Saturday Mr Corbyn will call for any cuts to frontline policing to be halted, saying that this "would be gambling with the safety of the British people" and mean the Government was "failing in its most basic duty: to protect our citizens".

The inquiry damned the Met as incapable of fulfilling its most basic duties because it was corrupted by institutional racism.

And the caretakers of all these people, the immigration department, failed in one of its most basic duties.

Passing appropriations bills is the most basic duty of Congress, and often the most contentious.

"To say that these realities should be ignored and that you should be blindfolded to what is happening judicially, legally and most importantly what is evolving so dramatically in both counts in other counties, I think, ignores the most basic duty there is, to look at the truth and make a fair decision".

When I arrived home, there was a reminder of the most basic duty of my American citizenship waiting in my mailbox: a summons for jury duty.

"Had she not died yesterday, hundreds of thousands of dollars would have been spent on propping-up this gross creature who had failed to do her most basic duty – her only real duty, in fact – and reproduce," Anglin wrote.

I assumed it was my fault because she had been a 10-week-early preemie, and I had failed in my most basic duty as a mother to just KEEP HER IN ME.

Congress's failure to perform its most basic legislative duty is distressing.