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duty-bound
adjective
- morally obliged as a matter of duty
Idioms and Phrases
Obliged, as in You're duty bound to help your little brother . [c. 1900]Example Sentences
Farage has insisted the party was duty bound to look into any allegations of wrongdoing.
The standoff also pitted two branches of executive power against each other: law enforcement officers, armed with a legal arrest warrant and presidential security staff, who said they were duty bound to protect the suspended president.
The abuse was often covered up by institutions that "prioritised their reputations above the welfare of those they were duty bound to protect".
It may never happen, but certainly it came from credible sources and I felt duty bound to report it because it is part of the Russian intelligence playbook.
But he noted that prosecutors are duty bound to only pursue charges that are supported by probable cause that a crime was committed.
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