Sentence examples for our common duty from inspiring English sources
It is our common duty to seek out the answers to the resource dilemma and put them into practice.
Calling for a new "economic constitutional order," he declared it our common duty to "build toward the time when a major depression cannot occur again".
The defence of the universal values of humanity against violence, discrimination and hatred is our common duty, as is a close collaboration in the fight against injustice and poverty.
On Wednesday Beijing reiterated that China and Taiwan had a common duty to protect Chinese sovereignty in the South China Sea.
I think a set of books with interest in outside events – a coming world war, turmoil in India, social unrest and common duty – might be the right thing.
An overhaul of the constitution is needed "as part of a renewed and sustained drive to improve health literacy and educate the public about their common duty to support the sustainability of the health service", they add.
She says that they were in breach of the common duty of care under section 2 of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 and were as such liable for her husband's death.
Peers on a House of Lords select committee urged citizens to do more to demonstrate personal responsibility – their "common duty" – to live healthily in order to help preserve the NHS as a tax-funded system that is free at the point of use.
And knowing you to have sons of your own, we thought that you were most likely to have attended to their training and improvement, and, if perchance you have not attended to them, we may remind you that you ought to have done so, and would invite you to assist us in the fulfillment of a common duty.
Similar casuistry enables Cicero to resolve in accordance with his thesis a range of common cases where advantage might be sought at the expense of justice (in administering the estate of an orphan, for example, a common duty of eminent Romans).
