"Convert, vow absolute allegiance, beg for mercy, atone, or face certain death!" Those are the gruesome choices forced on Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Yazidis or other non-Sunni Arab minorities by the jihadi executioners of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -- the self-declared caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham ("Greater Syria") otherwise known as ISIS or ISOL.
During the campaign he deplored the country's "social fracture", promised to make "combating unemployment an absolute priority", and vowed to restore "healthy and lasting growth".
And, inexplicably to many legal experts and other Chinese, the court appeared to create a new loophole by vowing "absolute protection" only for children under 12.
Unhappily for him, not every one was eager to take his vow of absolute poverty, beg for food and go barefoot in the winter.
While vowing an "absolute commitment of faith" to protect Israel's security, including the use of American troops if necessary, Mr. Corzine said nonetheless that he supported President Clinton's decision not to veto the Oct. 7 resolution.
The word came after he had spent the day vowing the United States' "absolute, total and unvarnished commitment to Israel's security".
In Mr. Xi's first three months as China's top leader, he has gyrated between defending the party's absolute hold on power and vowing a fundamental assault on entrenched interests of the party elite that fuel corruption.
Where a racial struggle was concerned, Von Trotha believed in "absolute terrorism and even cruelty", and vowed to "destroy the rebellious tribes by shedding rivers of blood".
A personal notice appears in the paper: Mousse has taken his final vows in a monastery in Scotland where absolute silence is observed.
Crolla says messages of support have "meant the absolute world to me and my family" Anthony Crolla has vowed to come back "stronger than ever" after suffering a fractured skull and a broken ankle in a confrontation with burglars.
