Sentence examples for ordinary responsibilities from inspiring English sources

Jonas was the one whose choice of profession had seemed so reassuring to his parents, and had roused a muted envy in Pierre's parents, yet it was Pierre who had married and got a teaching job and taken on ordinary responsibilities, while Jonas, after university, had never settled down with a girl or a job.

Conversely, Marian, Roberson wrote, "is a truer product of her times, shaped by the ordinary responsibilities and expectations of a medieval woman".

The Little Sisters of the Poor were not trying to obtain religious freedom--which they already had--but instead were trying to exempt themselves from the ordinary responsibilities of civil society, while obstructing their employees' access to contraception.

The two films have several elements in common, however notably, the celebration of ordinary competence and ordinary responsibility as the ultimate bulwarks against extraordinary danger.

The information "should have been shared with the full committees in the first place as a part of our ordinary oversight responsibilities," Schiff said in a statement posted Friday on Twitter.

The biggest challenge facing architects today, Wilkinson writes, is housing for ordinary people, "a responsibility that these days is consistently shirked".

Yet modern society increasingly depends on ordinary people taking responsibility for doing extraordinary things: operating inside people's bodies, teaching eighth graders algebraic concepts that Euclid would have struggled with, building a highway through a mountain, constructing a wireless computer network across a state, running a factory, reducing a city's crime rate.

We had been dealing with damage to our home and garden in the midst of preparing to host a family reunion -- this in addition to our ordinary day-to-day responsibilities and vocations.

IfF resolved to address the apathetic disengagement, which plagued local ballots by empowering ordinary people to reclaim responsibility.

"Each ordinary man has a responsibility for democracy, for the well-being of the nation," he said, nearly spitting with indignation.

In the 1990's attention shifted again -- probably inevitably, given the work of the preceding two decades -- to the role and responsibility of ordinary Germans in the destruction of European Jewry.