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Pflicht in English:

1. duty duty


If you don't do your duty, people will look down on you.
He risked his life to carry out his duty and inspired police officers everywhere.
Call of duty
Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.
However, the duty of a student is to study. So if you neglect the end of term test, that's a "no!".
The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.
The strongest is never strong enough to always be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. From there derives the right of the strongest.
The traditional way of learning a language may satisfy at most one's sense of duty, but it can hardly serve as a source of joy. Nor will it likely be successful.
Duty should come before anything else.
We have a duty to adopt this text which, of course, could be further improved.
a moral duty [+ to do sth] Rail companies have a duty to provide safe transport.
It should be noted that the duty continues after a notice of allowance is mailed and the issue fee is paid.
The dignity of man is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?

English word "Pflicht"(duty) occurs in sets:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Peccavi" (E. W. Hornung)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Young Soldier" (Anonymous)
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2. mandatory


A cooking course should be mandatory in schools.
The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
The mandatory audit rules for small companies have been abolished; the rules are now voluntary.
It's mandatory for cyclist to wear helmets.
The definition of mandatory is something that is required.
Military service is mandatory for all men over the age of 20 in Turkey except the ill, disabled or homosexual ones. / Following lobbying by Ms. Merkel, the EU Commission announced it wanted 160,000 refugees distributed around Europe by mandatory quotas.
Things should not be forced upon you........ made mandatory........
By a mandate contract, the mandatory obliges himself to perform a specified legal act for the mandator.
mandatory evacuation
attending school is mandatory until the age of 16
It should be clear that the curriculum reform is mandatory in order to enhance interdisciplinary research.
Age discrimination is illegal and retirement is mandatory in only a few occupations.

English word "Pflicht"(mandatory) occurs in sets:

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