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  • I am sure she will continue her duty's as governor until her term is up.

    Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election 2009

  • "Where my duty's concerned - aye!" cries I, in a fine patriotic fever.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Ever since the announcment of T4 people have been curious if Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldhave any type of appearance in the feature film, but given his duty's as Governer of California that seemed unlikely.

    Schwarzenegger’s Head Might Be In Terminator Salvation 2008

  • Likewise, in the next essay's examination of a Kantian (if not quite Kant's) ethics of duty, he argues that from this conception of morality we should abandon, as the result of a false abstraction, its idea that duty should be done just for duty's sake.

    Francis Herbert Bradley Candlish, Stewart 2009

  • Beyond the obvious reasons for avoiding the legal enforcement of all moral duties, many philosophers believe that part of the value of acting on one's moral duty has to do with the intention to do the right act, with acting for duty's sake.

    How to Kill a Missionary 2009

  • Troy has no such coward's tale to tell of him; nay, he will follow duty's call; his actions will prove him a worthy scion of Peleus and Achilles.

    Andromache 2007

  • At least that is so if the deontological morality contains no strong duty of general beneficence, or, if it does, it places a cap on that duty's demands.

    Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007

  • Army Gen. John Abizaid, who ran Central Command from mid-2003 until his recent replacement by Adm. William Fallon, is a particularly poignant case of duty's trumping wisdom.

    Blame For The Top Brass 2007

  • Troy has no such coward's tale to tell of him; nay, he will follow duty's call; his actions will prove him a worthy scion of Peleus and Achilles.

    Andromache 2007

  • Though a religious man himself, as was almost inevitable in his time, * Kant tried to base a morality on duty for duty's sake, rather than for God's.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

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