(n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
(n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
(n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
(n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
(n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
(n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Uninfected people's general rights to protection are considered, and health professionals' and authorities' rights and duties are given more detailed attention.
(3) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(4) With SH, blood flow at low and moderate Pdi was limited at duty cycles greater than 0.3 and 0.1, respectively.
(5) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
(6) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(7) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(8) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(9) Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance.
(10) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(11) Revenue from tobacco duty in 2011-12 was £9.55bn, up from £8.09bn in 2007-08.
(12) "I have a brilliant staff and we have a duty to serve our readers and will continue to do that.
(13) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(14) He suggests that doctors and nurses who provide terminal care be selected for psychological suitability, be trained in communication, receive adequate ongoing support and definition of their roles, and rotate periodically to less stressful duties.
(15) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
(16) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(17) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
(18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
(19) Dave Couvertier, an FBI spokesman, confirmed only that "the agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties" and said he expected to be able to release further details of the incident later on Wednesday.
(20) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.
Fidelity
Definition:
(n.) Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
(n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
(n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.
(n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
(2) Procaryotic DNA polymerases contain an associated 3'----5' exonuclease activity which provides a proofreading function and contributes substantially to replication fidelity.
(3) In the current study, left ventricular geometry, loading conditions, and contractile state were assessed in 13 patients with nonischemic DCM with the use of simultaneous high-fidelity pressure measurements and echocardiographic recordings.
(4) "He was modelling himself at that time in Ethiopia on Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
(5) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(6) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(7) The effect of metal activators on the fidelity of DNA synthesis has been examined.
(8) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
(9) The fidelity of base-matching is better in double-stranded transcripts synthesized on rat liver chromatin by homologous polymerase than in those synthesized on it by a bacterial polymerase, or in those synthesized by either of the two polymerases on pure DNA.
(10) Investors include Threadneedle, Fidelity, Blackrock and Standard Life.
(11) Rob Fisher, head of UK personal investments at Fidelity, thinks tax considerations alone make it worthwhile using the full limit.
(12) If you want full flexibility, you will probably have to switch your pension savings to a provider such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Fidelity or Aegon Retiready and manage it from their “platform”.
(13) Replication fidelity is shown to decrease roughly exponentially, and catalytic efficiency is shown to increase with diminishing returns, with the number of letters for a fixed genome length; hence their product, i.e.
(14) In Escherichia coli the dnaQ+ gene, which encodes epsilon, a fidelity subunit of DNA polymerase III, and the rnh+ gene, which encodes RNase H, share a promoter region but are transcribed in opposite directions.
(15) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
(16) This indicates that elimination from the nucleotide pool of the oxidized form of guanine nucleotide is important for the high fidelity of DNA synthesis.
(17) Members of each subgroup have similar although not identical restriction maps and show relatively high but varying fidelities of DNA cross reassociation between members.
(18) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(19) The high fidelity DNA synthesis in vitro by Thermococcus litoralis DNA polymerase provides good possibilities for maintaining the genetic information of original target DNA sequences intact in the DNA amplification applications.
(20) In Fidel's mind, he was probably acting in self-defence."