Sentence examples for real duties from inspiring English sources

He said the state could not afford to have on its payroll state workers who have no real duties.

Politicians have been likely candidates for a while, Mr. Green said, but only ones no longer busy with the real duties of office.

At the time, he'd just graduated from Boston University and was working for CBS's morning show, where one of his first real duties was producing an interview with Ms. Ross.

But she told the Guardian that she had been pressing officials to move her from her position for almost a decade because she had an "empty title" with no real duties.

The fact that she is the proud parent of a child with special needs is seen as a credential, not an impediment, to performing a job that seems a little short on real duties anyway.

"For the past two months, the mayor has not spent much time fulfilling his real duties; he only went into the streets to excite the crowds and create trouble," said Andry Ralijaona, an official within the presidency, explaining the decision to remove the mayor.

"The real duty the board has is to ask what is in the best interest of the shareholders," he said.

So while the cry of "Troops out" has its attraction the real duty is to rethink strategy and tactics.

"It will soon again be possible for the E.C.B. to concentrate on its real duty — monetary policy," said Michael Schröder, economist at the ZEW economic research institute in Germany.

I think the question is are the management team today doing the right thing to deliver for shareholders in the future and that's my real duty".

"I'm very, very conscious of the fact that there is a real duty as a journalist to make sure everything is right.