Sentences with phrase «known as a duty»

The UK duty regime should be overhauled so that a single rate is applied to all alcoholic drinks according to alcohol content — known as duty equivalence - to ensure a level playing field with no distortion of competition between different drinks.

It's best known as a duty - free stopover for those travelling between Kota Kinabalu and Brunei.

Employers, shop owners and landlords are obligated to adapt or adjust facilities, services or employment requirements to meet the needs of an individual or a group protected by human rights laws (known as the duty to accommodate).

Not exact matches

Translation scholar Peter Newmark explains that the translator has a duty to be faithful to the speaker or writer only in as far as their words do not conflict with material and moral facts as known - and they can express dissent if the text is likely to mislead the receiving audience.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

But even worse, as of 2017, neither the US nor the Afghan government actually know how many personnel are ready for duty, thanks to the prevalence of «ghost» personnel: phony soldiers used to fence US - paid salaries and equipment.

You know, I've had people say, «Don't get too close to your employees,» because if you connect in a deep way, it makes it very difficult to exercise your duties as the leader of the business.

In December, the Yukon appeal court sided with the Ross River Dena Council that existing free - entry staking rules conflicted with the constitutional duty to consult aboriginal groups with outstanding land claims, in this case to an area known as the Kaska.

China had previously purchased two former Soviet aircraft carriers to be used as tourist attractions, and the Liaoning, known as the Varyag at the time, was deemed to be too deteriorated to be able to be used for active duty, and the Chinese Navy was more focused on submarines at the time.

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate&raquduty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate&raquDuty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

It means «receiving or offering any undue reward» so as to influence an official's behaviour «and to incline him to act contrary to his duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.»

Having co-founders also reduces the risk for investors as they know that there is backup management lined up in case the founder is not performing his or her duties for whatever reason.

Or, if you want to postpone your payments while you are on active duty, complete the Military Deferment form (PDF)(also known as Military Service and Post-Active Duty Student Deferment form) and have your commanding or personnel officer complete section four of the form and check the box next to iteduty, complete the Military Deferment form (PDF)(also known as Military Service and Post-Active Duty Student Deferment form) and have your commanding or personnel officer complete section four of the form and check the box next to iteDuty Student Deferment form) and have your commanding or personnel officer complete section four of the form and check the box next to item 3.

Many Albertans now know Ken Kowalski from his higher duty as the long - sitting Speaker of Alberta's Legislative Assembly, a position he has held since 1997.

As a corporate lawyer I know better than most that a corporation's duty is to its shareholders, not its employees.

As my friend James mentioned to me today, Howard Buffett is not only on Coca - Cola's board, but he's also the man that was given the duty of carrying on the Berkshire Hathaway culture once Warren Buffett is no longer there one day.

But China is likely to complain about any eventual duties since Commerce will judge it as a «nonmarket» economy, despite Beijing's long - standing insistence that the state no longer determines prices.

So I praise Santorum for choosing to run for president despite the fact that he knew he already had pressing and touchy familial issues that could come into conflict with his duties as a candidate — let alone the ways in which the importance that those particular issues could run counter to what he was obligated to do as president.

The dangers of serving as enlisted military personnel are well known at times of conflict, especially while on active duty deployment.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

This is known in bioethics as the «duty to die» and has been debated for years in professional discourse.

I don't like pointing out other Christians doctrinal errors as I know that this side of eternity I will never be completely right and it is not our duty to point out Christ's servants faults.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

I can't really suggest anything because I don't know much about the situation in particular but I can say they must not fully understand the doctrine of forgiveness and their duty as parents.

They need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century.»»

On the basis of this belief there came to be a group of Wahhabis known as Compellers who considered it their religious duty to see that people performed the prayers at the prescribed times, basing their action on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.»

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

As an adult he was no longer a member of the Church, yet duty and reverence were transferred, so to speak, to a theory of education.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church members.

A lot of people are going» Well, you know, they put his name on the plaque, all's good, why does his mom want to go further with it and treat him as a First Responder when he clearly was off - duty».

He had every right and reason to walk right past us to the calm and quiet of his apartments, but he knew it was his sacred duty to make a gift of himself to us as much as to the crowds that greeted him in foreign lands...»

It is my duty as a follower of Jesus to let others know that He is the way, the truth and the life.

Whatever the answer, we considered it our duty, as eyewitnesses, to let the world know about Nazi inhumanity and the sufferings of the Jewish people.

One knows of schools where the important duties of governors are being concealed and they are being sidelined by being given most unsuitable, and essentially trivial, tasks such as superficial school visits.

We know of his grief over the death of his father only because he recalls someone commenting that he is crying as he continues to perform his duties.

Like Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, I have sympathy for Anna Stubblefield, the Rutgers professor who was convicted in 2015 of raping a severely disabled man known as «D.J.» Her crime, horrid as it was, arose not from bad intentions or from failed duty, but from the consistent application of ideas we are all asked to applaud.

«Thou hast made us for thyself, O God...» At best, we men are pilgrims whose true Patria is the heart of God; we walk as wayfaring men in the company of the Son of God, seeking to do our duty and live aright in this world, but not ashamed to let it be known that God has prepared for us another habitation, «a city which hath foundations.»

This is the Augustine who, having been converted from the false ideal of personal authenticity and having handed over to God his broken will, torn between desire and duty, concludes that he can be an authentic self only in submission to God's call — concludes, indeed, that only God can catch the heart and hold it still, that only God can know him as he truly is.

In the Catholic tradition an ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a minister, with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.

If the private was graduating from AIT, then he had to have graduated from BCT, and I hate to bust his bubble, but as the wife and mother of active duty service members I know they have invocations and benedictions at those ceremonies, so why did he just now embrace his inner atheism?

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

With less and less people participating in church, the church no longer has the resources to assist as many and now the government feels its thier duty to step in and be a sugar daddy.

Gruber's lecture opened a window into the arrogance of the secular clerisy: those enlightened members of the professoriate who know best and who, as a matter of duty, are going to give the dimwitted people what's best for them — and give it to us good and hard.

As a Mass. resident he said he no longer had any official church duties when he lived here.

We believe that the priests of Pantu Baba, known collectively as the Elders or the Old Ones or the Saggy Ones or the Vicious Self - Righteous Blowhards, are to be accorded all manner of honor praise and renumeration in keeping with their great and glorious duty of honoring praising and renumerating Pantu Baba, the Vile, the Irascible, the Arbitrary, Patron of All Who Need Patronizing.

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

Our alderman was ex officio the epicure of the party, half of his duties as a New York city father having been to study carefully all known flavors.

The DOL permits restaurant employers to continue to pay the reduced minimum wage to tipped employees while performing such side work so long as it is (1) minimal and no greater than 20 % of the time and (2) related to the performance of tipped duties.

He was invisible in midfield as if he doesn't know what his duties are.