Ordinary Italians are being urged to do their patriotic duty and to buy government bonds.

BBC: Will the euro survive?

MPs drew the conclusion that deposing Mr Duncan Smith had become a patriotic duty.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

And he urged Iraqis to vote, casting it as their patriotic duty.

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Paulson told them it was their patriotic duty to do so.

NPR: Bernanke Urges Economic Stimulus From Congress

It doesn't quite say that it should be the patriotic duty of public sector pension funds to back Scottish technology, but the report heads in that direction.

BBC: Life Sciences laboratory worker

So companies like Google, whose trademarks and corporate rights are protected by U.S. laws, should consider it a patriotic duty to pay taxes on the billions they earned.

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Two years ago, after the government banned the risky bits of cows from the human food chain, Canadians were urged to do their patriotic duty and eat more beef.

ECONOMIST: Canada

It was your patriotic duty to become a physicist.

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But no doubt she did her patriotic duty.

ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90