Some articles on duties:
... of, a host family Babysitter Between maid, an in-between maid her duties being half in the reception rooms and half in the kitchen Boot boy, a young male servant, employed ... some officers have a soldier (in the British army called a batman) for such duties Wet nurse, provides suckling for infants if mothers cannot or do not wish to do so themselves ...
... used initially for training and coastal patrol duties ... From 1917-1921, Mogami was assigned to patrol duties in the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands after Japan's capture of those island groups from ... off of the Siberian coast, and to fishery patrol duties, during the period of Japan’s Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War ...
... military training, draftees also have other duties such as cleaning the camp, making food, serving other draftees in the military restaurants, et cetera ...
... A secretary has many administrative duties ... Traditionally, these duties were mostly related to correspondence, such as the typing out of letters, maintaining files of paper documents, etc ... The advent of word processing has significantly reduced the time that such duties require, with the result that many new tasks have come under the purview of the secretary ...
... Among their most critical duties is the ordination and appointment of clergy to serve local churches as pastor, presiding at sessions of the Annual, Jurisdictional, and General Conferences ... To discharge such other duties as the Discipline may direct ... Presidential Duties.—1 ...
Famous quotes containing the word duties:
“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,—all duties even.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government—not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)