Sentence examples similar to pledge of duty from inspiring English sources
Under the changes, unveiled this week, Girl Guides in Australia will continue to wear sashes with badges, but pledges of duty to God, the monarch and obedience have been dropped.
Like Mayer's pledge, these tours of duty are moral commitments, not legal contracts.
In contrast, May said it would be a "dereliction of duty" to give up Britain's nuclear deterrent and pledged to keep to the Nato target of spending 2% of national income on defence while she is prime minister.
It is noteworthy, however, that Kant's concept of duty, or Pflicht, could have been more literally translated as "plight" or even "pledge". Indeed the English word plight has its origins in the Old German word Pflicht.
There she stands charged with dereliction of duty in pursuit of the government's signature policy, a disastrous rice-pledging scheme.
Just in terms of duty – straightforward duty".
Dereliction of duty, indeed.
