Sentence examples for ought to serve from inspiring English sources

"Humans ought to serve us.

Moreover, he translated these principles into social action by teaching that people ought to "serve Man as they serve heaven".

Mr. Ridge said he believed the officials who actually directed operational agencies ought to serve as witnesses.

"Assessments ought to serve as a diagnostic tool, not a distraction from learning," he said to much applause.

"This ought to serve as a reminder to those countries which are now pointing the finger at the principality".

This habit, firmly ingrained in Russian media and society, ought to serve as a cautionary tale in this country.

But the fact that these efforts completely ignore postdocs--and the big-picture dysfunction in the current science-career landscape--ought to serve as a sign of a different kind: that those academic careers will be open to only a small, select minority.

If a subject is convinced that a war is wrong, he ought not to serve in it, but people without access to good information are entitled to accept the ruler's assurance that the war is just.

Given these different aims, what these two sets of laws should require will often differ; for this reason religion "ought not always to serve as a first principle to the civil laws" (SL 26.9).

The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female ought to have served an important purpose: we do need "a manifesto for modern womanhood", as it's billed, to help young women inherit the benefits of feminist history.

It has the capacity to change utterly what we do, and in the process to betray the people we ought to be serving.