Sentence examples for unexpected duties from inspiring English sources

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Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had unexpected duties in store for us.

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Although police officers are well organised, well educated and informed in terms of HIV and AIDS-related issues, it was challenging to engage them in responding to a long questionnaire, due to unexpected emergency duties.

This may force you to pay expensive and unexpected customs duty, such as anti-dumping duty, as well as risk delaying your customs clearance.

When I was living in Brooklyn, I was pressured to reveal my Social Security number in an unexpected context: jury duty.

The, perhaps unexpected, effectiveness of these duties is apparent with regular legal challenges to the swingeing cuts to public sector spending.

The last seven years have been especially hard on those serving in the National Guard and other reserve forces, who too often have had to shortchange their families, finances and careers to accommodate lengthy, repeated and unexpected tours of active duty overseas.

Five months away from the next election, the Chancellor has delivered his Autumn Statement which included unexpected reform of stamp duty for home buyers.

Sydney's double life -- disarming a nuclear device one day, taking midterms the next -- seems more credible now that we've seen the unexpected heroics and sense of duty that ordinary people are capable of.

These comprise safeguards against unexpected surges in an import, countervailing duties to compensate for subsidized imports and tariffs on imports sold below cost.

This is partly because of discretionary tax increases like the abolition of the dividend tax-credit for pension schemes and the sharp rises in road fuel duties; and partly because of unexpected tax buoyancy, particularly in income-tax revenues.

His tour of duty proved fruitful in an unexpected way: he became a writer.

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