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How to use the word duty-bound in a Sentence?

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I still feel that as a sport going to places with human rights issues, such as this one, I feel that the sport is duty bound to raise awareness and try to leave a positive impact, and I feel like it needs to do more.

– Lewis Hamilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hong Kong prides itself on the rule of law; law enforcement agencies are duty-bound to take action against unlawful acts, regardless of the political background of the suspects. Arrests made are based on evidence and strictly in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

– The Hong Kong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here, however, you have police who are duty bound to help/protect their fellow officer, to charge them you'd have to show they knew or should have known he was acting with excessive force.

– Kurt Weinmann

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I am duty-bound to be here to simply say that it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy, it is your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization.

– Killer Mike

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I took the oath of allegiance proudly and ... registered to vote the same day, having taken that oath, I now feel duty-bound to join the political fight to uphold it. We need every vote and every sensible voice -- on the left and the right -- to get the nation and our world back on track.

– John MacIntosh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We don't believe there's a risk, but we have to - and are appropriately duty bound to - satisfy the regulators, which we will do, and we'll move on from there.

– Paul Hudson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

– James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

I shared many reasonings and truths with bob marley, peter tosh, joe higgs, roy wilson, cherry, delroy, junior braithwaite, alton ellis, and other legends and peoples of trench town, to which I am duty bound not to release to the public, but which I will use, if and when it becomes necessary to show the liars, pirates, privateers, profiteers of reggae, the truth which I know will ultimately silence them. Those who still try to ignore and to erase our names from the reggae book of truths will face the consequences. I speak without prejudice.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I'll give you a strange answer, i hope not, because I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly.

– James Comeys

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly, people in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We are duty-bound as people in the soccer industry, as members of the Chinese Football Association, to vigorously develop Chinese football, this is our responsibility and it is also the demand of the times.

– Yu Hongchen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

NATO is strengthening its aggressive rhetoric and its aggressive actions near our borders, in these conditions, we are duty-bound to pay special attention to solving the task of strengthening the combat readiness of our country.

– President Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One is duty bound to observe that there is a history of foreign players expanding aggressively in the upswing only to have to retreat quickly when more difficult times come.

– Glenn Stevens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think we're duty-bound to provide support.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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