Sentence examples for practical duty from inspiring English sources

The practical duty of installation was done by his wife Sue, and later by Pia Simig, while the craftsmanship was entrusted to an ever-changing team of collaborators, some of whom Finlay never met.

Fundamentally important as is this clock in all that concerns its relation to exact astronomical science, it performs also another and more immediately practical duty, that of regulating the time of great part of the United Kingdom.

As the new chief executive of USA Track & Field, Logan, who was commissioner of Major League Soccer from 1995 to 1999, wrote to the president that he had a "moral and practical duty" to argue against Jones's seeking of a pardon or a commuted sentence.

Early disclosure by a company may create a situation in which the company has an ongoing legal or practical duty to provide updates about the investigation in its SEC filings and at other times and by other means that satisfy other potential disclosure requirements (such as stock exchange listing requirements) and comply with Reg.

Medallion's board includes former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, and if Mr. Murstein wants to check out the way his Hermès tie complements his blue shirt, he has only to glance toward a wall-mounted taxi sculpture with a windshield that does practical duty as a mirror: it's a whimsical gift from another board member, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the former senator and governor from Connecticut.

Such a practice, which Weber calls "syncretism," is not only impossible but also unethical, for it avoids "the practical duty to stand up for our own ideals" [Weber 1904/1949, 58].

Their practical duties and aims as instruments of governance may not always match their constitutional blueprints or historical roles.

It's still there, proving that for all its practical duties soothing aches and warming toes, a hot water bottle can simply hang around and look attractive.

Nominated by a 10-member council of regional Ashanti elders, and voted on by community members, the regional chief has a range of ceremonial and practical duties.

The message it sends out is that the job of the stewardess is to be sexy, to get her wriggle on in her pencil dress and give those men in business class something more interesting to look at than the FT, whilst the job of her male counterpart is to carry out practical duties in an efficient manner.

Aristotle criticizes his predecessors for excessive utopianism and neglect of the practical duties of a political theorist.