devolving on

Example Sentences

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There is a term of probation in the Post Office, and details of the duties devolving on postal clerks may not be without interest to the Bristol public.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

The President and Secretary-Treasurer shall perform the duties usually devolving on such officers.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

The captain was now again taken ill of what he calls a bilious colic, which was so severe as to confine him to his bed, the charge of the ship devolving on Mr Cooper.

From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by Kingston, William Henry Giles

He has not the broad intellect requisite for the gigantic measures needed in such a crisis, nor the health and physique for the labors devolving on him.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

The two men also departed, after looking to the safe, and the last duties devolving on them, seeing that all was locked and double-locked.

From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne