Sentence examples for the ultimate duty from inspiring English sources

It implied not only the ultimate honour but the ultimate duty as well.

We have the ultimate duty of care to the children we lock up, he says, and we are currently failing them.

He added: "Those with the ultimate duty of care turned Daniel from a beautiful and bright-eyed little boy into a broken bag of bones". When Daniel's body was examined, experts were shocked.

In turn, Mr. Spitzer acknowledged that the S.E.C. had the ultimate duty to oversee the structure of the securities industry and that he would not try to usurp that role.

The feminist writer Tarabai Shinde (1850 1910) writes that the scriptures, by depicting gods such as Indra who exploit chaste wives such as Ahalya, are responsible for promoting immoral ways; she asks why so much importance is then given to pativrata dharma, the devotion and fidelity to the husband which is said to be the ultimate duty of a wife.

The State is the ultimate duty bearer of children's rights, and it is its resources that make the greatest impact in their lives.

From the ancient warrior fighting for his country for whom devotion to his king and honor in battle are the ultimate duties, to the corn farmer in Kansas who believes he was put on this earth to support his family and to give his kids the opportunities they deserve, everyone has a picture of what he or she "should" be doing with their life.

Can it be said that there is no [p122] rational nexus between refusal to perform this ultimate duty of American citizenship and legislative withdrawal of that citizenship?

Congress, he said, "has placed the ultimate responsibility to administer the Medicaid Act on the states," and this duty cannot be delegated.

As CEO, he had the ultimate responsibility for taking reasonable steps to ensure that the officers reporting to him performed their oversight duties properly.

The soldier's ultimate duty is not to liberate nor to defend nor even to kill, but to die, and the game strips warfare down to this singular principle.