Sentence examples for term duty from inspiring English sources
"When I am talking directly of the chance of incurring the evil, or (changing the expression) of the liability or obnoxiousness to the evil, I employ the term duty, or the term obligation…" (Austin 1832, 18).
What caught my attention in his closing is the use of the term "duty".
Whether the president intended love, charity, duty, and patriotism as responsibilities or rights or both, the term duty seems to me the most vague, and while I find it easy to name my specific rights as an American, pointing to the Bill of Rights and other legislation, I find it very difficult to define and understand the extent of my duties as a citizen.
The term "duty of care" refers to these special obligations.
The term "duty of care" (which I take to be synonymous with duty to care) is, at best, too vague and, at worst, ethically dangerous.
In a document submitted to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Expert Panel Secretariat, Godkin and Markwell suggest that policy guidelines on the duty of care (which they term duty to care) should state that healthcare professionals' duty to care extends to a public health emergency in outbreak conditions (2 ).
Robert L. Behnken of the Air Force; and Garrett E. Reisman, an astronaut who will be staying aboard the station for long-term duty.
It will be the first time since the Vietnam War that large numbers of marines, traditionally an expeditionary force, will serve long-term duty for a military operation.
Robert L. Behnken of the Air Force; Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut; and Garrett E. Reisman, an astronaut who will be staying aboard the station for long-term duty.
When the transition is complete, Germany will have at least doubled the number of troops it has available for long-term duty abroad — from roughly 7,000 today to at least 14,000 — and will be able to send them on more challenging missions.
The Endeavour also took up the astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, who stayed aboard the station for long-term duty, and returned with Gen. Léopold Eyharts of the French Air Force, a European Space agency astronaut who has lived on the station since last month to activate a European science laboratory.
