Sentence examples for most basic duties from inspiring English sources

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

No longer having faith in their own competence, politicians have blithely surrendered the state's most basic duties.

Many of the other victims were performing one of citizenship's most basic duties: listening to and questioning one of their political representatives.

This was not a scholastic argument of the kind so beloved of coalition ministers but a simple restatement of one of the most basic duties of government: where your poorest and most vulnerable citizens go hungry, you must feed them.

WASHINGTON — In last year's campaigns, Republicans ripped into Democrats for failing to perform one of Congress's most basic duties: providing money in a timely way for the operations of government.

The result is that Gazans, isolated by an Israeli, Egyptian and Western closure for the past year and a half, now have another reason to feel besieged — they are being deprived of the chance to perform one of the most basic duties of a Muslim, the Mecca pilgrimage.

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

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.

"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".

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".

Any president who does not regard this threat as transcending all others does not deserve to sit in the White House, for he or she does not take seriously enough the first and most basic duty a president has -- to protect the lives of the American people.