"duty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And she was the perfect servant for this odd household; she was the one who found the new maidservants (usually from among her vast network of relatives) when their girls were ready for more exacting duties (and higher pay) in larger households.
- Overstep your authority once again and I personally will see to it that you have a rest from your exacting duties.
- These conditions rendered it impossible for the families of the tenement-house workers to live so that the children might grow up fitted for the exacting duties of American citizenship.
- Richmond continued to perform exacting duties, occasionally providing guns and their crews for use ashore.
- Gull continued her exacting duties as a minesweeper at Argentia until the summer of 1944, calling at Boston for repairs as needed.
- Conditions, though oppressive here, are so free from danger that the signal-and-aid-station might well be manned by a category of troops not suitable for more exacting duties.
- He was cited for distinguished service as commander of the ship while "engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines".
- Highlights of this exacting duty included she herding a stricken slow tow convoy which had been attacked by U boats.
- The rigours of office, the exacting duties of coroner - they would break many a lesser man.
- For distinguished service as Commanding Officer USS Benham, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling European waters and protecting vitally important convoys, he was awarded the Navy Cross.
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