Sentence examples for whole duty from inspiring English sources

The whole duty of a department store, like the whole duty of Man, is not perfectly defined.

He insisted he had done his duty – his whole duty – by taking the Searson case to Little.

But should these conditions be violated, the sovereign still commands and may not be resisted by his subjects, whose whole duty is obedience to their ruler.

No less an authority than the composer Richard Wagner, also one of the first modern conductors, said the "whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability always to indicate the right tempo".

Now Patti Smith has disclosed an unexpected enthusiasm for the children's poems of Robert Louis Stevenson – verses such as The Land of Nod, My Bed is a Boat and Whole Duty of Children.

Train to Nowhere, published by the then independent Hutchinson in 1948, was praised in the Observer for its "calm, youthful candour, its forthright acceptance of the whole duty of war service".

Charles Dickens "An honest, affectionate, benevolent, loving man... who had fought the battles of his life bravely and truly, doing his whole great duty without fear, though not without much unjust reproach".

"But if you multiply that to giving the police this whole other duty of finding people who owe debt and have the police interact with everyone who owes money, you're astronomically increasing the number of police-civilian interactions.

Earlier we saw that these principles are of two kinds: They concern our good on the whole and duty.

"Duty to my neighbour, at any rate as my neighbour conceives it, may not be the whole of my duty," he says in Authority and the Individual.

Unless he suddenly reverses himself, the Supreme Court as a whole has a duty to intervene, much as it reviews the recusal decisions of lower-court judges.