sacred duty

collocation in English

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sacred
adjective
uk
/ˈseɪ.krɪd/us
/ˈseɪ.krɪd/
considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofsacredanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is an imperative that many on both sides still regard as asacredduty.
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Consequently, the army both grew highly sensitive towards any criticism and felt that maintenance of the social order and unity of the fatherland was theirsacredduty.
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Some people seem to think that it is asacreddutyto educate and elevate.
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It is thesacreddutyof the state and society to do so.
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So joining forces in order to ensure that these rights are respected is oursacredduty.
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He sees it as hissacreddutyto preserve the status quo.
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But academic freedom can be hollow indeed and may even be used dangerously unless it discharges itssacreddutyto academic quality.
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They held that it interfered with thesacreddutyof private enterprise; and that it imposed upon private builders grave restrictions on their personal liberty.
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We will take it as our first and mostsacreddutyto see that the harmless and the innocent shall not suffer actual physical privation.
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Thesacreddutyof each of us is to contravene such an unprecedented oppression.
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All male patients are our brothers and nursing them is oursacredduty.
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For him the art of healing was a vocation and asacredduty.
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In her view there is meaning in nature and it is the poet'ssacreddutyto uncover this.
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It was theirsacreddutyto maintain the standards and legacy of the games, as well as uphold the rules.
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Article 52 states that the defence of the fatherland ("patria") is thesacreddutyof every citizen.
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We have asacreddutyto remember the cruelty that occurred here, and to prevent such atrocities from happening again.
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Safety first ought to be the first charge and to apply every one of its principles ought to be thesacreddutyof everybody using the roads of the country.
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There ought to be an officer attached to every portion of the theatres of war, deputed with thesacreddutyof making a proper defence of every accused soldier.
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Perfect thyself, and guard ever against pride, for it is asacreddutyto foster new growth, nurture growing things, and work for rebirth and renewal.
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Even enemies are regarded as guests if they enter the home and being hospitable to them as one would with any other guest is asacredduty.
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