Someone evidently was on duty there.

That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

A steering committee of students was organized on the first day whose duty it was to be alert and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the direction and pace the class was taking.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.

The Christian education of children, too, was once hardly more than a sideshow, but the day came when a congregation that did not assume full oversight of a church school was thought of as failing in its duty.

Mission Street at this hour was populated by a whole community that Gun could not have seen on his tour of duty -- the neighborhood that had known Urbano Quintana by day.

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.

It was as if foreign duty implied and excused license ; ;

His duty was to write a school text and to teach the entire personnel of the Gabriel how to speak Ozagen.

Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??

An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his / her state or sovereign.

" The body of the reigning sovereign also thus holds two distinct personas in constant coexistence: that of a natural-born human being and that of the state as accorded to him or her through law ; even in private, the monarch is always " on duty ".

Most of these, including the Yeomen of the Guard, had the duty of protecting the sovereign and other dignitaries as a bodyguard, and carrying out various duties for the sovereign as assigned to his office.

Every word pierces so my heart, that the sudden joy surmounted my memory, having no regard or respect to the place ; but I thought it my duty, that in the same place where I received this comfort, to laud and praise God upon my knees, and most humbly to render unto my sovereign lord my most hearty thanks for the same.

In his proclamation of 15 March 1842, as in his memorandum for the queen, dated the 18th, he stated with characteristic clearness and eloquence the duty of first inflicting some signal and decisive blow on the Afghans, and then leaving them to govern themselves under the sovereign of their own choice.

He never forgot, even in August 1870, a month before Sedan, that he was a sovereign of a Catholic country, that he had been made emperor, and was supported by the votes of the conservatives and the influence of the clergy ; and that it was his supreme duty not to abandon the pontiff.

His love for the land of his birth conflicted with his duty as the bishop of Japan to support his faithful and to pray for the Japanese Emperor and the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy: in the orthodox liturgy at that time, priests must explicitly pray not only benediction on the sovereign and his army, but also for the defeat of his enemies in the intercession.

In 426, the new sovereign summoned him to court, where he spent two years with no real duty or power, but rather as a token to display loyalty: he then left for two years, but came back in 430 to defend himself against charges placed by his local prefect.

To Maintain the king's peace was the first duty of a German sovereign.

His duty was to write in Greek and Persian characters the decrees and edicts of the sovereign.

About nine years later, Sir Thomas Lovell, who married Isabel, Edmund's sister, presented a petition to parliament, stating that Edmund was " not of sufficient discretion to guide himself and his livelihood ; nor able to serve his sovereign after his duty " and asking " that he might have the guidance and governance of the said Edmund " and all his property.

" But this enactment was repealed by an act of 1547 ; and it is certain that a proclamation purporting to be made in the exercise of legislative power by which the sovereign imposes a duty to which the subject is not by law liable, or prohibits under penalties what is not an offence at law, or adds fresh penalties to any offence, is of no effect unless itself issued in virtue of statutory authority ( see also Order in Council ).

He never forgot, even in August 1870, a month before Sedan, that he was a sovereign of a Catholic country, that he had been made Emperor, and was supported by the votes of the Conservatives and the influence of the clergy ; and that it was his supreme duty not to abandon the Pontiff.

Because each of the 50 U. S. states is a separate sovereign free to develop its own tort law under the Tenth Amendment, and because Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins ( 1938 ) ruled that there is no general federal common law ( thus implying no general federal tort law ), there are several tests for finding a duty of care in United States tort law.

Each state, he contended, was a sovereign power and was in duty bound to protest against the tyrannical acts of the Federal government.

We declare more it must be clearly understood that he does from us obedience and fidelity that we owe it to the king, our legitimate sovereign, and we look on the contrary, as our enemies all those who reported abuse and its benefits his tender solicitude for his people, seeking to weaken its authority guardianship, reduce its powers and destroy his throne by the insinuation of criminal republican ideas, the spread of which it is our duty, as good and loyal subjects, to oppose with all our strength.

The associated military policy – the " Fubing system " – conscripted all men in the nation for a fixed duty period each year in exchange for their land rights.

Each self-governing ( or autocephalous ) body, often but not always encompassing a nation, is shepherded by a Holy Synod whose duty, among other things, is to preserve and teach the apostolic and patristic traditions and related church practices.

Corporal Gborie quickly went to the SLBS FM 99. 9 headquarters in Freetown to announce the coup to a shock nation and to alert all soldiers across the country to report for guard duty.

In summary, Roosevelt for his part believed ' the President has not just a right but a duty to do anything demanded by the needs of the nation, unless such action is forbidden by the Constitution or federal law.

In this speech, he outlined his vision of the university in a democratic nation, calling on institutions of higher learning " to illuminate duty by every lesson that can be drawn out of the past ".

The depiction of India as a Hindu goddess implies that it is not just the patriotic but also the religious duty of all Indians to participate in the nationalist struggle to defend the nation.

President Narayanan was deeply pained and anguished, and described it as a grave crisis of the society and the nation ; he called it the duty of every Indian to strive to restore peace and thus preserve and strengthen the foundations of the state and the tradition of tolerance.

" And though doing what nine tenths of the nation will hereafter pronounce wrong, yet will listen to no argument upon the point, because he says that his State has decided upon it and it is his duty to exercise her laws.

The ideal and the discipline which he proposed to his defeated country were those of her conqueror — a feudal society, a monarchical government, an élite which the rest of the nation exists merely to support and nourish ; an ideal of honour and duty imposed by a chosen few on the recalcitrant and subject multitude.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, while recognizing that it is " primarily the duty and responsibility of a nation to safeguard the health and physical well-being of its own people ," knew there would always, especially in times of war, be a " need for voluntary agencies to supplement … the official agencies charged with these responsibilities in every country.

England has a real duty there .” His fear was that England would become a nation of factory-workers, thinking more of their trade-union than of their country.

On December 18, 1879, Peruvian president Prado went from Callao to Panama, allegedly with six million pesos in gold, with the duty to oversee the purchase of new arms and warships for the nation.

His first political involvement was to found a student organization called “ Hulda ,” whose regulations stated it was dedicated “ solely to the revival of the Hebrew nation in a new state .” During the 1929 riots in Palestine, Jewish communities came under attack by local Arabs, and Stern served with the Haganah, doing guard duty on a synagogue rooftop in Jerusalem ’ s Old City.

Monarchists argue that having a long serving monarch would increase the sense of duty and continued stability of a nation as the monarch would not have to worry about staying in power or elections every few years and be solely focused on their duties.

The eighth verse, is a patriotic call to duty to Hondurans to defend the flag and the nation.

* We believe it is our duty to serve God to the best of our ability and to pray for a moral and spiritual revival that will return this nation to the traditional values upon which it was founded.

According to one article at the time, the Shmoo showed " Thrift, loyalty, trust, duty, truth and common cents add up to aid to his nation.

The inscription on that award reads: “ To David M Barrett with respect and gratitude for your service to the nation, perseverance, and dedication to duty from your colleagues at the Federal Bureau of Investigation ” signed Louis B. Freeh, Director.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Khomeini appointed his own competing interim prime minister Mehdi Bazargan on February 4, ' with the support of the nation ' and commanded Iranians to obey Bazargan as a religious duty.

Powell was unsure, but Nixon and his Attorney General, John N. Mitchell, persuaded him that joining the Court was his duty to the nation.

It is the duty of the United Nations ( the Allies to make sure that the power is friendly to American and other Allied interests but also that it is powerful enough to help the Chinese, the world's most populated nation.

Although the army still did not represent the whole nation, as city residents were exempt from military duty, 1628 is generally regarded by historians as the year when the modern Norwegian army was born.