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be duty bound

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be duty bound to do something
if you are duty bound to do something, you have to do it because it is your duty The government is duty bound to compensate those who lost money. I've been given a certain amount of training so I feel duty bound to stay in the job for at least a year.
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Even if every fatality attributed to the multinational coalition was caused by defensive action, or even by accident, it should still be duty bound to count them," it maintained.
Since Los Angeles County is the nation's largest county with blacks, Latinos, and Asians soon to make up a majority of the population, police officials should be duty bound to quell all doubts that they treat minorities unjustly.
 
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