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Outside China, companies broadly understand that they owe their primary duty of care to their investors.
ECONOMIST: Chinese business
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In summary, the important point for investors to remember is that the analyst owes his primary duty to his company.
FORBES: Financial Analysts: Writing Research That Benefits Their Employers and Themselves (August 1, 2001)
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The governors would have to be satisfied that increasing private income would not interfere with the hospital's primary duty of providing NHS care.
BBC: Ministers offer more concessions on NHS bill
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Yet in playing this game, the Bank of Japan has failed in its primary duty as a central bank: to ensure price stability.
ECONOMIST: Japan��s economy
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The IRS already has trouble meeting its primary duty: collecting taxes.
NPR: IRS Faces Tough New Duties Under Health Overhaul
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Keeping them properly configured, updated with the latest software from the vendor and monitoring the logs they generate is the primary duty of the network security team.
FORBES: Reduce Policy Complications to Enhance Security
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The primary duty of government - our abiding obligation - is, and will always be, the safety of all British people and the protection of the British national interest.
BBC: In full: Brown security statement
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The health minister said the primary duty in the bill was to promote a comprehensive health service free at the point of use and warned peers against detracting from that.
BBC: Health and Social Care Bill part two
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Similarly, opponents including the Tories' David Davis, have insisted that - whatever the arguments around control orders - it is still the home secretary's primary duty to protect the public.
BBC: Is Reid playing the blame game?
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The committee recommended that encouraging sustainable development should be a primary duty of the regulator, and that the government should speed up reform of the way water was abstracted from rivers.
BBC: MPs call for urgent action to reduce flooding
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The All-in-1 pocket-sized conglomerate handles your checkbook balancing with ease, but it seems the primary duty of this contraption is to read just about every memory card format we've ever heard of (and some we haven't).
ENGADGET: Uni-Creation's All-in-1 memory card reading calculator