Your duty to feed the people comes first, above anything else whatever!
The duty to uphold and support just institutions does not come into play.
It was difficult to think of him as an enemy, but duty came first.
Instead, duty in these places may come to be seen as just another step on the career ladder.
But in any case, our duty to home and to the war effort must come first.
She had married a man for whom duty always came first.
After all, duty came first, and the captain himself had asked him to work on the engines.
Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.
"The question really is which duty comes first - to the nation or to shareholders."
He loved me, but honor and duty always came first.