(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.
Sentry
Definition:
(n.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm in 6 of 9 cases of hypoglycemia, giving a nosological sensitivity of 0.67 (95% confidence limits 0.30-0.93).
(2) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(3) In early February 1916, he failed to report for sentry duty in the trenches near Serre on the Western Front.
(4) At Ghazi airbase a Pakistani sentry said he admired the money and resources they brought to the aid effort.
(5) The efficacy and credibility of a skin temperature--skin conductance meter (Teledyne Sleep Sentry) for detecting hypoglycemia was studied during night-time in 22 adult insulin-treated diabetics.
(6) A quarter century later it is said to have blown down in a violent storm, to be stolen by a sentry who only admitted this on his deathbed.
(7) Presidential guard sentry posts were initially empty, but a few guards later appeared and were permitted to take up positions.
(8) All these invisible lines lead to St Paul’s, which stands sentry, keeping watch over the metropolis it has shaped for 300 years, sometimes in highly specific ways.
(9) The Sleep Sentry did not sound the alarm in 35 of 51 cases of non-hypoglycemia, giving a nosological specificity of 0.69 (95% confidence limits 0.54-0.81).
(10) Blood pressure measurement with two automatic devices, Dinamap 845 and Sentry, was compared with the standard mercury sphygmomanometer, by means of a 3-period crossover experiment.
(11) He said: “With more warnings of threats to our citizens in Tunisia following the horrific events of two weeks ago, we’re fighting a new Battle of Britain, once again, against a fascist enemy prepared to kill civilians and opponents alike.” Vital questions about the UK’s involvement in Syria air strikes | Letters from Oliver Miles and Robert Wall Read more The RAF is deploying in missions over Iraq and Syria all of its 10 Reaper drones, eight Tornado fighters, two Sentinel ground surveillance aircraft, two Sentry E-3D airborne surveillance aircraft, an air-to-air refuelling aircraft, and a turboprop Shadow plane equipped with listening devices.
(12) The world on the train goes on at its own pace as it devours the railway miles, silver birch trees standing sentry along the line.
(13) Curfew is at 11pm but there are hardly sentries on patrol in the corridors.
(14) At 3 a.m. the Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm 22 times, of which hypoglycemia was present 6 times giving a diagnostical specificity or diagnostical true positive rate of 0.27 (95% confidence limits 0.11-0.50).
(15) Elba recently completed the third series of Luther, while taking on more significant film roles – including key parts in Pacific Rim , Prometheus and Thor: The Dark World , in which he plays the Asgardian sentry Heimdall.
(16) He said: "I was put on night sentry duty and told by my officers to shoot any porters trying to escape.
(17) "I remember being on sentry duty at a post overlooking the dog kennels, and the guy I was with wouldn't even look at them," one British eyewitness recalls.
(18) A Kenyan soldier clambers up to his sentry post and stares out across vast plains of bush, acacia trees and red dust.
(19) The contents of basic mineral elements (Na, K, Mg, Ca, P, Cl) were investigated in service dogs during their long-term basic training; the dogs belonged to two age categories, and the influence of different work stress (sentry, tracker, watch dogs) on the changes in the contents of these elements was also studied.
(20) He was nervous to leave it, his sentry post, but on this promise he must.