Example sentences of "state have a duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distribution of legal responsibility for the education of children is such that parents have , in effect , a duty to send their children to school , and the state has a duty to educate them when they get there . |
| 2 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 3 | Maconochie was the originator of the ‘ mark ’ system of prison discipline , which was based on the conviction that the state has a duty to reform criminals , and that positive encouragement was more effective than punitive measures . |
| 4 | The state has a duty to protect its citizens from external enemies , and this can best be achieved by maximizing its power vis-a-vis other states . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State has a duty to tell the House why that decision was made . |
| 6 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |