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Meanings of imperative duty in English

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Usage of imperative duty in English
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Acceleration of all fighting forces to overseas service became the imperative duty.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
2
Now I have finished what has been a disagreeable though imperative duty.
The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who...
3
This is its clear right, and this, too, is its imperative duty.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
4
We have never supposed it the imperative duty of every man to vote.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
5
All this appears to me to be matter of plain and imperative duty.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
6
She did not understand that he was performing an imperative duty.
The Duke's Children
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He considers it his imperative duty to appear 'just so,' on every occasion.
Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain
8
Oh, certainly, a most imperative duty; but so delicious at the same time.
Doctor Thorne
9
It was her duty, clearly her imperative duty, yet she durst not fulfil it.
The Unclassed
10
To avert it, by every human precaution, is an imperative duty with every one.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
11
The building up of one's physical assets should be recognized as an imperative duty.
Vitality Supreme
12
How best might she accomplish that imperative duty of rescue?
Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West
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To tell her the truth was an imperative duty.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
14
Colonization is not only a manifest expedient for, but an imperative duty on, Great Britain.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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How can we perform this imperative duty to mankind?
Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...
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She feels this to be an imperative duty.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1
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