social duty

For all your tough talk, you do seem to have a sense of social duty.

Going on the media becomes a kind of social duty.

It takes a person away from his religious and social duties.

Too many years he had made a habit of social duty.

She was recalling him, we would say today, to his social duty.

Who knows when I'll get enough social duty credits for a second son, or a third?

As there was a break in the line, I took advantage of it and did my social duty toward them both.

He spent his life working never accepting any social duties.

This would show she will do her social duty but really does not want to play the publicity game.

So much for business, now for the more trying social duties.

In the afternoons, your social duties, the visit and the visitor.

And the parson naturally set an example in these social duties.

"But the social duty credits you'll be getting - think of it!

Bearing children is regarded as less of a social duty than it once was in many societies.

This remained a primary religious and social duty of emperors.

I was told that they thanked no one for instructing them in their social duties.

"They took them out of my social duty credits, of course."

More likely, he says, he is doing his social duty somewhere in black tie.

And anyway, I have enough social duty credits for a son and a half.

Everything seemed to be merely a matter of social duty, and never of her self.

The junior aides saw to the general's personal comfort and attended to his social duties.

"You know how ladies' social duties accumulate if they have been for some time in the country.

"I've already done my social duty to Summers for the Season.

"You will not escape your social duty that easily.

"Except for your social duties with the Prince of Wales."