Sentence examples for presumed duty from inspiring English sources

But on the level of political morality and public disenchantment and the President's presumed duty to embody the rule of law in a society founded on the sanctity of law, there are similarities.

But this density was frowned upon: the reliance of working people on fast-food was thought to be dangerous to family coherence and gave women a chance to evade at least one of their presumed domestic duties.

The representative may be presumed to have a duty to choose as the child would choose if able.

In some places, Clifford seems simply to presume that epistemic duty is a species of ethical duty.

The IRS did not presume that a governor, unlike the president, is presumed to always be on duty.

It is therefore more useful to emphasize justifications other than presumed consent when defining the duty of HCWs to provide care, such as the social contract between society and the medical profession and the fact that HCWs have a greater ability to provide medical aid.

In summary, it may be inappropriate to justify a reduction in working hours on the grounds of a presumed linkage between patient safety and resident duty hours.

If a Christian ruler presumed to rule over a colony, it was his duty to give it benefits equal to those of the home country and to send efficient ministers to see just laws observed.

The Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and imposing duties on various products imported into the British colonies had raised such a storm of colonial protest and noncompliance that they were repealed in 1770, saving the duty on tea, which was retained by Parliament to demonstrate its presumed right to raise such colonial revenue without colonial approval.

But, they said, it would revise what they called an unfair and outdated policy that presumed people whose military service made up only part of their lives were unfit for such duty.

Although it opened up the possibility of blacks serving in combat, the proposal presumed that they would serve mainly as laborers, their value being in freeing up white soldiers for combat duty.