Sentence examples for were duty from inspiring English sources

"We were duty bound not to go forward with the prosecution".

The Madrid press, who had demanded a big game from Bale in the absence of the injured Cristiano Ronaldo, were duty satisfied.

Bernard Jenkin, the former frontbencher who has been appointed to negotiate with ministers, said Tories were duty bound to support the enabling legislation.

As the inquiry closed, Scottish prosecutors concluded that they were "duty bound" not to charge Mr Clarke for dangerous driving because of insufficient evidence, The Guardian reported.

Of course, Waugh was often batting with tail-end batsmen, who were duty bound to give way when danger threatened, but there may also have been times when the blinkers were on.

All of these developments were big news and the papers were duty bound to wrestle with the issues on their own pages and websites – though some titles did their best to pretend that the public had lost interest.

Here the report by the security staff gave them that suspicion and meant they were duty-bound to question Seddon, and entitled to arrest him.

They said they were duty-bound to protect their communities' principal and resented being expected to pay for what they consider inappropriate risk-taking at the state level.

In their concluding communique, the leaders praised the so-called New Economy and said they accepted economic globalization but were duty-bound to temper the harsher effects of reliance on unfettered market competition.

But some said last week they were duty-bound to address it when suspects and detainees who have refused to talk could have information that could save thousands of lives.

"Strong Capital Management and its founder, Richard Strong, betrayed the mutual fund investors they were duty-bound to protect," Stephen M. Cutler, director of enforcement at the S.E.C., said in a statement yesterday.