Sentence examples for mixture of duty from inspiring English sources
Of course there were those who always believed, the hardy few who stuck through thick and thin, supporting Wales not be cause of success but because of a mixture of duty and almost irrational enjoyment of all that goes with it, picking up as many obscure passport stamps as the side did defeats.
Mr. Gore's zigzagging on issues is a recurrent theme in Mr. Turque's biography, a book that, despite its judicious tone, draws an often damning picture of the vice president as a hypocrite, driven by a curious mixture of duty, loyalty and cold political calculus.
I Corps is unique among the active US Army corps in that it is composed of a mixture of active duty and US Army Reserve units in 47 of the 50 U.S. states, for a total of around 20,000 active duty and 20,000 army reserve forces.
His home life is its usual complex mixture of desire and duty.
According to Duff Hart-Davis's history of the island, cat hunting had already become a mixture of sport and duty by the 1820s; in the 1840s the bounty for a cat was raised from half a gill of rum to a whole gill.
Jauncey was sheriff principal of Fife and Kinross - with a mixture of judicial and administrative duties - from 1971 to 1974, when he was removed by votes in both houses of parliament after the Labour government decided that it no longer wanted part-time sheriffs.
Life in Vila Mimosa, said to be controlled by a mixture of criminal gangs and off-duty police officers who charge a protection tax from workers, brings at least a touch of security.
Mr Kirby said: "We will use a mixture of officers deployed on Olympic duties, overtime and asking officers to work through their rest days.
Public services depend on a culture of citizenship and equity - on a culture in which professional pride in a job well done or a sense of civic duty or a mixture of both replace the hope of gain and the fear of loss as spurs to action.
No doubt those who fought, suffered and died, did so with the usual mixture of human motives: but they did their duty by risking their lives.
