21.   Since the attacks, spending has been regarded as an almost patriotic duty.

22.   So I consider it my patriotic duty to supply you with at least one engaging baseball story.

23.   Some cultural purists have suggested it is patriotic duty not only to see the film, but to like it.

24.   Some, such as Anthony L. Farese of Ashland, Miss., saw defending the indefensible as a patriotic duty.

25.   Some people viewed boarding an airplane almost as a patriotic duty.

26.   Strange as this may seem to us, it has something to do with their concept of patriotic duty.

27.   The figures are so bad that EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham are coming stunningly close to saying that fuel efficiency is a patriotic duty.

28.   The notion that the army simply did its patriotic duty in accordance with traditional military standards has flourished in postwar Germany.

29.   There have been some efforts to convince people that it is their patriotic duty to spend money.

30.   There is no higher patriotic duty than the careful tending of the political system that is the reason for patriotism in the first place.