Quotes about devolves (7 Quotes)

And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance (of the message).

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

So in the summer of 1864, Ebenezer prepares to go to war and his wife happens to be confined to bed. She has just delivered a child and it was a very difficult delivery and she's not fit to run the plantation--and isn't going to be for quite a while. So the management of Somerset Plantation devolves on the oldest child, 16-year-old Anne Carter

Do not move your tongue with it to make haste with it, Surely on Us (devolves) the collecting of it and the reciting of it.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

But if they turn back, then on you devolves only the clear deliverance (of the message).

And the mothers should suckle their children for two whole years for him who desires to make complete the time of suckling and their maintenance and their clothing must be-- borne by the father according to usage no soul shall have imposed upon it a duty but to the extent of its capacity neither shall a mother be made to suffer harm on account of her child, nor a father on account of his child, and a similar duty (devolves) on the (father's) heir, but if both desire weaning by mutual consent and counsel, there is no blame on them, and if you wish to engage a wet-nurse for your children, there is no blame on you so long as you pay what you promised for according to usage and be careful of (your duty to) Allah and know that Allah sees what you do.