Sentence examples for usual duty from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dellinger agreed that exceptions to the usual duty to defend statutes should be rare.

Such images pass beyond clarification — imagery's usual duty — and, as with the French Symbolists, move into a territory of their own, where they become an expansion, a riff, an extra adventure.

Drinkers There were none of the usual duty rises on alcohol and cigarettes and Osborne is reversing a government decision to increase duties on cider by 10% above inflation.

The grating is optimized with the usual duty cycle of 0.5, where TE and TM polarizations are reflected in the –1st and the 0th diffraction orders, respectively.

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae.

Rodda returned to usual duties, though these proved supranormal.

She would now show a film of herself going about her usual duties.

This, he believes, allows him to legally put a freeze on some of his usual duties.

With their usual duties cut back so drastically, our evolutionary superstar immune systems sometimes lash out at innocuous perceived threats.

Police Chief Peter J. Robbins said repeatedly this week that long lines of lottery players had distracted officers from their usual duties.

On top of our usual duties, we had to mop the floors and clean toilets: part of "team member" jobs.