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line of duty

NOUN
  1. all that is normally required in some area of responsibility

How To Use line of duty In A Sentence

  • We were in Shawnee, Ok when Dan Corley stated he was in the war and that he was a Ranger who had been shot in the line of duty. Heroes or Villains?
  • By putting in place inexperienced senior police who had never copped the odd punch in the mouth or broken nose in the line of duty, the police force hung the community and the local police out to dry.
  • Even they must know that the word bonus comes from the Latin, meaning the "good" beyond the line of duty. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The AP spends a lot of time in its complaint attacking Fairey for making artwork in the past that supposedly violated other people's copyrights, and for "hypocritically" suing people he claimed violated his copyright, but these assertions are as legally irrelevant as the AP's statement that "more than 30 AP journalists have lost their lives in the line of duty. Jonathan Melber: Hypocrisy And Bad Faith In The AP's Countersuit Against Shepard Fairey
  • It was the first and last time he ever discharged his weapon in the line of duty, and the first time he had been shot at.
  • Here he engaged in another traditional hobby of the expat - the claiming of expenses incurred in the line of duty.
  • It may prove as compelling a palette of greys as Line of Duty. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving.
  • He passed away at his home in Chicago at last in poverty while waiting for a pension applied for on the grounds of founder and lampers brought on by eating too heartily after the battle and while warm, but in the line of duty. Comic History of the United States
  • He stood his ground throughout his challenging line of duty, which included the Battle of Orgreave, when police clashed with strikers on picket lines at the British Steel coking plant.
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