Sentence examples for not duties from inspiring English sources

Life kept going on, year after year, but, more often than not, duties or deadlines be damned, I was in front of a television set every Sunday (or Monday, or — pox on the league — Thursday) to test the proposition.

While a duty to obey seems to imply a duty not to interfere, there are cases of duties of non interference that are not duties to obey, such as the duties of foreign powers not to interfere in the activities of a legitimate state.

For the moral duties typically thought to be deontological in character unlike, say, duties regarding the environment are duties to particular people, not duties to bring about states of affairs that no particular person has an individual right to have realized.

These are not duties created by the text of the Constitution itself.

The criterion Explorer brought to world music was pleasure, not duty.

This puts a real crimp in governments' desire, if not duty, to discourage smoking.

Some would suggest, in good faith, that B is not duty-bound not to kill A if such seems necessary to stop A's aggression.

The system tested in the previous subsection acted like a single-pulse load application since it sent its packets to a base station that does not duty cycle.

This includes all the sources of power consumption that are not duty-cycled, such as the accelerometer sampling at 50 Hz and the BLE SoC in the sleep mode.

* power-separated, but not duty-separated.

He also noted that the recent cases stemmed from off-duty behavior, not on-duty misconduct.