(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.
Guaranty
Definition:
(n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.
(n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) The close cooperation of a morphologically interested clinician with a clinically interested morphologist and the guaranty of the mutual control of cytology and histology yield a promising success method for the clinical differential diagnostics and for the early recognition of cancer.
(2) In conclusion, the results of this study confirm that the mixtures of regular + isophane insulins (Actrapid HM + Protaphane HM) and regular + lente insulins (Actrapid HM + Monotard HM) give the same guaranties of safety and efficacy, that the former shows a more rapid absorption rate and, finally, indicate that the ratio 30:70 between regular and intermediate insulins is that more frequently used.
(3) The resection area in Crohn's Disease should be confined to a minimum, because even a wide resection is no guaranty for nonrecurrence.
(4) At the same time, the article makes clear that more reforms are necessary in the future, e.g., a further standardisation of rehabilitation services, the elimination of architectural barriers, reform of the benefit system, improvement of the social security for people in need of care and the guaranty of a regular income for those disabled from birth or childhood.
(5) During the induction-period the use of a high-dose combination-therapy guaranties a low incidence of rejection episodes.
(6) An automated procedure presented in this paper guaranties constant test conditions in an optimal way.
(7) In the Federal Republic of Germany the law guaranties yearly examination.
(8) For the treatment of the fractures of the antral walls, especially of the extended fractures of the orbital floor, after repositioning through the maxillary sinus, treatment is necessary which supports the maxillary sinus and which, being effective in all directions, protects the ciliated epithelium and guaranties the drainage of secretions.
(9) A background of psychiatric follow-up strongly influence the taking on and therapeutic decisions to be made by psychiatrists: its absence protects the patient and is seen as the guaranty of a good investment from the therapist while the existence of previous psychiatric treatment rather leads to hospital in lieu of crisis intervention, even when the crisis mechanisms are not significantly different in both samples.
(10) We conclude that a combinent use of anaesthesia and non-ionic contrast media does not guaranty protection from anaphylactoid reactions to iodinated radiopaque compounds.
(11) The improvement in the standard of living as such by no means guaranties well-balanced nutrition.
(12) It is widely realized, that the inherited idea of 'character' is not useful for a flexible guaranty of traffic safety by an administrative authority.