Sentence examples for mere duty from inspiring English sources

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Encourage the team to sing with their hearts and not as a mere duty.

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The more those in the research community recognise that information disclosed to a participant depends on context (e.g. study project, location, resources) and must go beyond mere duties of disclosure to actually achieve understanding[ 51], the further researchers and REBs can move towards ensuring there is genuine research participation, and indeed, engagement [ 52- 54].

Worried that a platform of mere civic duty would not suffice to stir the emotions of voters, Poppy and Mitt waved the flag and demonized opponents with ethnic names as less American.

The cream you slap on your face every morning now serves more than mere moisturising duty.

Philosophers disagree about the significance of the distinction between justice and mere humanitarian duties.

The first measure was the Plantation Act of 1764, usually called the Revenue, or Sugar, Act, which reduced to a mere threepence the duty on imported foreign molasses but linked with this a high duty on refined sugar and a prohibition on foreign rum (the needs of the British treasury were carefully balanced with those of West Indies planters and New England distillers).

Sensitive Italians used to distinguish the payment of rewards between on the one hand those paid for exemplary services rendered in the exercise of a profession, and on the other those going beyond the mere call of duty.

On the other hand, much moral action has no aesthetic quality and is mere half-hearted duty-following.

And therefore the fulfillment of obligations out of duty is mere "constancy" and, lacking presence, cannot rise to the level of "fidelity".

Whilst within the law clear reference is normally made to an ethics of (mere) compliance with the duty, the idea of virtue implies the reference to an "ethics of excellence" (Fuller 1969).

For other categories of jobs, it's harder to tell whether the "up-credentialing" reflects changing job duties or mere degree inflation.

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