Sentence examples for pressing duty from inspiring English sources

Further, if the prosecutor could be made to answer in court each time such a person charged him with wrongdoing, his energy and attention would be diverted from the pressing duty of enforcing the criminal law.

Each person at the disaster center had a pressing duty: closing floodgates at the waterfront, contacting officials in charge of setting up evacuation centers, making announcements on a public-address system wired throughout the town.

I see this as both our spiritual heritage and our pressing duty as resident guardians of the Earth and all her life forms.

As I watched the proceedings, I could not help but think some were treating this issue as if it were a hobby rather than a pressing duty to protect the public.

Further, although these obligations may compete for priority, they are not necessarily mutually exclusive: perhaps it is a 'more pressing duty to relieve [immediate] suffering' than to participate in research that will prevent future suffering, but we may be able to do both; and if we can, we should.

Given that fact and the history of church-state relations in Canada, she added, the most pressing duty of the faith-based groups is "to pressure the whole community for more government funding".

I thought that public employees would have more pressing duties, particularly because this was the Fourth of July.

After the attacks of Sept. 11, they guarded the 104th Precinct around the clock for five days, freeing officers to handle more pressing duties.

She only prayed when she had no pressing duties and no one else was at home, and the silence, broken intermittently by whispered prayers, made me nervous.

Instead, the citizenship bureau will report to the deputy secretary - Navy Secretary Gordon R. England has been nominated for the post - and Mr. England is sure to have many more pressing duties than worrying about the details of immigration services.

And while she often puts in extra hours to meet deadlines or to make up for time away, she compensates by taking time out for personal activities once pressing duties have been met.