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Example sentences for "official duty"

  • The superintendents and surgeons shall be appointed for a term of four years, and be removable by the board of directors for misbehavior, incapacity, neglect of official duty, or acts performed without authority of law.

  • Since, however, my judgment will not permit me to assent to the legislation proposed, I can find no way of turning aside from what appears to be the plain course of official duty.

  • My official duty compels me to play the part of a disinterested investigator.

  • My standard of official duty is too exalted to permit my neglecting it out of regard for my own feelings.

  • My official duty compels me to exclude you from the room in which the crime has been committed until it has been thoroughly searched.

  • A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

  • To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.

  • Tiberius Caesar, at the beginning of his reign, definitely adopted the principle of a state religion, and as Pontifex Maximus, was bound to protect the ancient Roman worship as a matter of official duty.

  • This would not be justified by the record, which clearly reveals that Pilate was moved by personal selfishness rather than by a sense of official duty.

  • In going there you were performing an official duty as much as you were when you had held court there.

  • His duty was to see to it that you were not unlawfully prevented from performing your official duty--not hindered or obstructed therein.

  • In each case he is proceeding in the line of official duty imposed on him by law and his official oath.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coaxial cable; colored person; common seal; conspicuous feature; diagrammatic representation; get you; grand banquet; need only; never going; official account; official duty; official exchange; official journal; official letter; official members; official organ; official report; official residence; other animals; page advertisement; real good; really seemed; remain here; seeing the; what had taken place; years previously