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    duty


    1. Kira’s emotional ‘computer’ was not flaw-free, and at times appeared to have the calendar set at the year 1850, when honour and duty were still in vogue


    2. She felt Tdeshi's hormones prompting her to blow off comfortable old Kulai and run off on an adventure with a dashing manly man, but Ava's sense of duty was going to force Herndon to pay for this junket with his fast boat


    3. You have a duty to Department X above all other duties!” Ackers said in a much quieter voice


    4. It is my duty


    5. Therefore, no neglect of duty is possible to the one-pointed person


    6. ’ He said as we show our membership cards to the National Trust personnel on duty and wander off into the great hall of the house


    7. Are you still on duty?"


    8. "My Dad always said a real detective is always on duty


    9. There were two of them, both heavy duty


    10. The pain in my ribs was searing, worse than anything the loan-shark heavies had done to me but I guessed that I didn't have the right to medical attention while Garda Thicke was on duty

    11. A real detective is always on duty


    12. Usually I get a night story from the duty officer


    13. He was on duty, his personification in a comfortable office chair, but hard at work behind the scenes


    14. Being able to teach necessarily implies the duty of teaching


    15. As a technician, Bahkmar had suffered thru all that indoctrination, had to salute it, pass tests on it, know his duty, so on and so on


    16. It was the technician's creed that this was what God meant all along, and it is our holy duty to let the non-technical believe in the words of scripture


    17. The technician who had drawn the Haadij's effects duty today was paying attention


    18. He wondered who was on that, it was usually easier duty


    19. I remember having to go up to the quarry on fire watch duty sometimes … you can see clear across the village from there … right over to Wales on a good day


    20. Theoretically he was not attending the meeting he was supporting because he was on duty

    21. It wouldn't effect anyone's duty or life very much one way or the other, all it did was change the time till they became a growing community once again


    22. When he was not in a meeting, or otherwise on duty, Bahkmar was sometimes allowed to forget the woes of Haad politics and retire to his private quarters


    23. While he was off duty, as opposed to live when he has to be there for active support of an important gathering, he can look at schematics


    24. Of course techs were forbidden to associate with other techs when off duty


    25. Through those repetitions of days with Smiler on duty, I sat on the mattress and watched the world spin away from me as though I were floating above a stage set


    26. Anyway, I came over here to ask about the council meeting, you're not on duty for this one are you?"


    27. He was called to emergency duty because the bus width for the number of personifications that are interacting within sight of each other was in overload


    28. I usually spend my time in jeans and jumpers or t-shirts, depending on the weather – or smart trousers when I’m on official duty, so to speak


    29. The female tech currently on duty was a blond named Linshere Paundrocop who was probably quite attractive if he could ever see more of her than her eyes and forehead


    30. By the letter of Holy Law they weren't supposed to be sharing this information but the only person that could know would be another tech tapping into their duty environment

    31. By the time the duty clock said the sabbath was over, Bahkmar had proven to himself beyond all reasonable doubt that there were no real female souls on the ship


    32. There was just enough circuitry to run four different cherubs, one on duty at a time, to simulate the technician's portal to that universe


    33. The two guards who had been on washing-up duty came over, this time with rolls of duct tape in their hands


    34. This was why the techs were kept apart from each other off duty, so they would not know who was who and could be pitted against each other by their bosses


    35. "Understand this much, in heaven our women are protected," God rumbled, "their duty is done, they have completed their duties to men


    36. I had a duty to exist because I felt sure that by surviving I would find companionship


    37. He thought someone should notice he hadn't reported for duty by now


    38. With all the disruption their expedition had faced, he only went out when he was on duty


    39. "Your duty is to keep us safe from other prying eyes and ears


    40. "Not a clue, I haven't been called for duty since the end of that meeting

    41. "What was your duty?"


    42. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship


    43. About one in ten thousand people here carried one, he gave one to every crew chief on duty at the ranch


    44. She was on duty, at least her avatar was, by now that was just about a copy of herself, interrupting her real self for further information now and then


    45. You don’t want to feel guilty anymore, so you do your religious duty in going to church, tithing, repenting, reading your Bible, attending the Bible study, serving, and all the other things that are promoted by the church building that good saints do


    46. This city needed a Helen on duty in this harbor at all times to launch these thousand ships


    47. Nuran began to like playing the 'space man' game with Alan and showed off how well she had studied for this trip by taking over duty as his guide


    48. hanging duty and respect on gently vibrating airwaves


    49. and a riot squad that is one off duty policewoman


    50. There came a time in late Morningday in week Zawmathii, their third week out of Shempala when she was on the topdeck because of duty on the middle mast














































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    Synonyms for "duty"

    duty obligation responsibility tariff work part business place function task office trust onus liability charge deference homage respect reverence tax custom impost levy toll

    "duty" definitions

    the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force


    work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons


    a government tax on imports or exports