Sentence examples for lawful duties from inspiring English sources

Used in this way, the administration said, sham "pro forma" sessions prevented two executive-branch agencies from performing their lawful duties.

In a Guardian interview, Commander Neil Basu condemned a "ground swell of opinion" that his officers should automatically be treated as criminals for opening fire during the course of their lawful duties.

David Cameron's former communications director wants to overturn a high court ruling in December 2011 that a clause in his severance agreement with News International meant that the publisher was liable to cover his legal costs relating only to his "lawful duties" as editor and not allegations of criminality.

However, there was a taint with the public charge that Sessions, as the judge noted, was willing to "disregard the lawful duties of the Attorney General".

"The defendant's actions prohibited me from performing my lawful duty".

It will then become the lawful duty of the Security Council to lift the blockade and all the other unjust sanctions on Iraq.

"To be considered willful, a school board member's actions must have been intentional and with a wrongful purpose, to disregard a lawful duty or violate a legal requirement.

Critics cite the meeting as evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld muzzles the military, as an effort by the defense secretary to prevent the nation's highest-ranking general from performing his lawful duty to give his best military thinking, unvarnished, to Mr. Bush.

"I think there is something seriously wrong with the entire picture," Mr. Palladino said, "because if you take a look at the situation in its entirety, it's that the police were there performing their lawful duty; Bell was intoxicated and he tried to run the police down".

"The reason behind the commission's attempt was nothing except fulfilling its lawful and legitimate duty toward honorable people who are the major owners of this system," he told Parliament.

She complied with her duty to obey lawful orders but also her duty to disobey unlawful orders.