duty-bound

ADJECTIVE
  1. under a moral obligation to do something
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How To Use duty-bound In A Sentence

  • Given that scientists were very likely involved in a large portion of this research and duty-bound to publish, how did so much of this negative evidence drop from public view?
  • I was one of those journalists, duty-bound to cover this minor Scottish success story but intrigued, too, by the single which had landed on my desk four months earlier and which had hardly been off my CD-player since.
  • Therefore the Government in particular and society in general is duty-bound to assist the construction industry to perform satisfactorily.
  • We are duty-bound to manage our environment so that future generations may equally enjoy it.
  • The directors are indeed duty-bound to bring to the table the wide diversity that exists among the membership in order to take a stand for the dreams of tomorrow's human condition.
  • Once it had been leaked from supposedly sealed court documents, news agencies were duty-bound, sanctimoniously holding their noses, to put the Vaseline story into the public domain.
  • But the UN and, more specifically, its leading members, are duty-bound to oppose the one aggressor nation today that threatens to make of its lone conflict a global catastrophe.
  • We are duty-bound to deliver leaflets for the mainstream political parties.
  • Most of his biographers and all of his friends say that he was simply a German, and when his country was at war he was duty-bound to build them an atomic pile.
  • Ministers demanded that service because if they misled the people and did not immediately correct the record, they were duty-bound to accept responsibility and resign.
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