Sentence examples for paramount duties from inspiring English sources

Ms. Guérin, a former professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, writes that "Cooper was the first rich man to preach year after year that wealth is a trust, carrying paramount duties and obligations".

General Yuan feels that his paramount duty is to preserve China from dissolution.

The Foreign Office is, as always, treading a tightrope between the paramount duty to protect British citizens and the risk of damaging an ally.

It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders.

When she died two years ago, she entered the unholy pantheon of brutalized children who died while in the care of those whose paramount duty was to keep them safe.

Hence it is the paramount duty of society, parents and policy makers to guide, nudge, coerce and motivate children who are not yet capable of making strategic choices.

She had given birth to three boys in a row at a time when South Korean women considered it their paramount duty to bear a son.

They also worried about their burial sites; as in much of rural South Korea, worshiping ancestors is common here and protecting graves from anything deemed an impurity is a paramount duty for the living.

He broke his neck from the impact of hitting the cab ceiling, but he didn't know that in the chaos – or much else, other than the paramount duty to let others in potential danger know.

"I think what the Supreme Court said in its opinion is that the Constitution is very clear about the paramount duty of the legislatures of various states in the selecting of electors," Mr. Baker said.

Like the Apostle Paul in the biblical text that we have heard, I feel in my heart the paramount duty to thank God, who guides the Church and makes her grow: who sows His Word and thus nourishes the faith in His people.