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duty-bound

adjective

  1. morally obliged as a matter of duty
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Idioms and Phrases

Obliged, as in You're duty bound to help your little brother . [c. 1900]
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Farage has insisted the party was duty bound to look into any allegations of wrongdoing.

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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.

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The abuse was often covered up by institutions that "prioritised their reputations above the welfare of those they were duty bound to protect".

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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.

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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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