Sentence examples for supreme duty from inspiring English sources

Is there one supreme duty?

"The government has a supreme duty to bring equality and integration of Israeli Arabs into the State of Israel," Mr. Barak said.

To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which are threatening the whole world-such is the supreme duty which is today imposed on all States.

In his stand against the dictatorial regime of King Mswati II, Thulani Maseko read from the dock: "When freedom is taken away, it becomes the onerous and supreme duty of men to reclaim it from the oppressor.

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man".

Or as the constitution puts it, "national defense is the supreme duty and honor of its citizens".

In contrast, Bush and Vice President Cheney "clearly hearken back to the older monarchical model in which everything rests with the supreme ruler and his supreme duties".

Putting his lucrative recording and touring career on hold in response to what he called a "supreme patriotic duty," the Senegalese singer-songwriter Youssou N'Dour announced late Monday that he was running for president of his country.

Referring to Machiavelli, Heinrich von Treitschke declared that the state was power, precisely in order to assert itself as against other equally independent powers, and that the supreme moral duty of the state was to foster this power.

Dying for precisely no reason whatsoever has been a British serviceman's supreme patriotic duty from Khartoum to Magersfontein, to The Somme to Borneo.

In so doing, we will avoid the risk of desensitizing ourselves to violence, and affirm the supreme and inviolable duty of saving lives.