6 sentences with 'duties'
Example sentences and phrases with the word duties and other words derived from it.
• « We each had our duties: the boys had known how to stand watch since they were six years old, and for the past eight years we had been accompanied by Santos, our affectionate and playful schipperke dog. »
• « My guest duties fulfilled, my host made a point of taking me to dinner at some restaurant near my motel, where I had not yet checked in. »
• « Once the prophet Ezra compiled the Torah as a single sacred text, one of the official duties of the Jewish community's scholarly leaders, the rabbis, was to carefully recopy it, character by character, ensuring that it remained the same no matter where Jews went. »
• « Women were praised for fulfilling their social and family duties, for performing religious ceremonies, and even for their political intelligence in the case of notable queens (such as Alexander's mother Olympias or, much later, the famous Cleopatra VII). »
• « The first decades of the Counter-Reformation thus saw an "opening" of the Church to its followers and a greater emphasis on the Church's duties to the laity. »
• « Richelieu was said to "worship the state" far more than he seemed to care about his duties as a cardinal. »