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.

His duty was to his sovereign and to his nation, and an extension to peoples beyond the territorial boundaries was not to be contemplated.

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??

`` I shouldn't like to have to write you up for insubordination as well as dereliction of duty ''.

He tells the young man who once left his post that he will write and tell the boy's parents that he did his duty ; the critically injured young man smiles and passes away peacefully.

One of his final acts was to write the following message: " If anything should happen to me, tell my wife I've done my best in doing my duty.

He described Egypt as " a house on fire, so rapid was the destruction " and felt his duty to be that of a " salvage man, to get all I could, as quickly as possible and then, when I was 60, I would sit and write it all.

Mesić held that active duty officers could not write public political letters without approval of their Commander-in-Chief.

While at school his mother would write to Charles Edward instilling in him a profound sense of duty and obligation.

Some years later, one of his captains, Joel Pringle, would write: " devotion to duty, sound judgment and ability to inspire loyalty in his subordinates have resulted in a constant and steady increase in the efficiency of the above mentioned batteries.

The grand old duke is dead now, alas, but he loved that tour of Australia more than any other official duty he had ever undertaken in his auspicious public life ... I could write a whole volume on the Duke Down Under.

Ken is married and believes it to be his duty to write about war, stating ' I can't stand the sort of writing that spends two chapters describing the colour of an Autumn fucking leaf '.

I write to you in the agony of my soul, impelled by the sense of my friendship and attachment to you and of my duty to the public.

According to the Christian Arab scholar Paul of Aleppo, who in 1655 traveled through Ukraine to Moscow, “ Even villagers in Ukraine can read and write … and village priests consider it their duty to instruct orphans and not let them run in the streets as vagabonds .”

This is where the political and moral responsibility of the historian comes in: it is clearly implied that it is the historian's public duty to write in this way.

McNulty volunteered for this duty because his training as a pilot taught him to write very quickly and clearly.

Nevertheless, if the Caliph or his vizier received a letter from either ruler, it remained the duty of the Patriarch to write a reply.

Executive producer and current showrunner Al Jean found the idea " very funny " and gave former staff writer Jon Vitti the duty to write the episode's first draft.

: I have a sacred duty that authorizes me to write you, despite knowing that this letter will deepen your profound pain, by reminding you of recent battles.

He turned down an invitation to return to active duty in 1942, but continued to write and speak for 17 years from his home in Ventnor City, New Jersey.

At the top of every piece of work, pupils are asked to write the date, the title, and the words ' With My Duty ', or in German lessons " Meine beste arbeit " and French lessons " C ' est mon devoir " to show their acknowledgment of their duty to themselves, their parents, the school, and to God.

In an essay written in 1812, the anonymous author even felt able to write " The duty of the coroner of the verge is, although I believe now wholly disregarded, in deaths happening within the verge, to sit, jointly with the coroner of the county to take the inquisitions ...

This successful recruiting drive prompted Dunmore to write on November 30, 1775 that he would soon be able to " reduce this colony to a proper sense of their duty.

Right since 1907, Jatin ’ s emissary, Taraknath Das had been organising, with Guran Ditt Kumar and Surendramohan Bose, evening schools for Indian immigrants ( a majority of them Hindus and Sikhs ) between Vancouver and San Francisco, through Seattle and Portland: in addition to learning how to read and write simple English, they were informed about their rights in the USA and their duty towards Mother India: two periodicals – Free Hindustan ( In English, sponsored by local Irish revolutionaries ) and Swadesh Sevak (‘ Servants of the Motherland ’, in Gurumukhi ) – became increasingly popular.

Those named in the Greek paper were manufacturing reasons to steal aft under pretence of some call of duty, so as to be near Spencer, watching an opportunity to communicate with him.

Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen of age could take part, and it was a duty to do so.

Deontological ethics or deontology ( from Greek, deon, " obligation, duty "; and ,-logia ) is an approach to ethics that determines goodness or rightness from examining acts, or the rules and duties that the person doing the act strove to fulfill.

Marcus Aurelius ' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.

Koulouris, having finished his Greek army duty rejoined the band.

Early in Greek history ( 10th century – 8th century BC ), free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council.

Deontological ethics or deontology ( from Greek deon, " obligation, duty "; and-logia ) is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules.

DISTINGUISHED UNIT CITATION Company P Greek Expeditionary Forces Battalion ( Second Award ) is cited for extraordinary heroism and outstanding performance of duty in action against an armed enemy in the vicinity of Surang-Ni, Korea during the period 17 June to 18 June 1953.

Datis was originally called to duty alongside Artaphernes for the Greek invasion because Darius I had decided to temporarily relieve Mardonius of military service due to an injury he suffered in the Thracian campaign.

Imperial propaganda developed a ' paternalistic ' ideology, presenting the Princeps as the very incarnation of all virtues attributed to the ideal ruler ( much like a Greek tyrannos earlier ), such as clemency and justice, and in turn placing the impetus upon the Princeps to play this designated role within Roman society, as his political insurance as well as a moral duty.

The opposite view is the deontological, from Greek " deon " ( duty ), which proposes general rules and values that are to be respected regardless of outcome.

In 1978 he was drafted in the Greek army but did not serve as he was relieved of duty for psychological reasons.