Sentence examples for any oath from inspiring English sources

Many non-jurors refuse to swear any oath because the Bible said not to (James 5 12).

In 1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth and absolved her subjects from any oath of allegiance that they might have taken to her.

A woman who worked as an actress might better serve God were she to forswear any oath she had taken, even though before God, to remain in that immoral profession.

Except for what Josephus calls the "tremendous oaths" exacted from an initiate joining the order, they refuse to swear any oath, saying that "one who is not believed without an appeal to God stands condemned already," and "any word of theirs," he says, "had more force than an oath".

Mr. Karas said that the evidence presented showed that Mr. El-Hage and his three co-defendants "chose to pursue the criminal conduct that is charged in this case, and they were not forced into carrying out these deplorable acts by blind allegiance to any oath or forced adherence to any religious principals".

He refused to be seated until he could do so without taking any oath, in particular the first one, which required an expression of approval for the regicide.

Any oaths about patriotic duty ring somewhat hollow when the other options are execution or drowning.

And above all, don't feel pressured to take any oaths before you're fully willing and ready to do so.

"Every senior official in any administration takes an oath to the Constitution," Pence said.

President Lincoln had authorized loyalist governments in Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee as the Union came to control large parts of those states and advocated a ten percent plan that would allow elections after ten percent of the voters in any state took an oath of future loyalty to the Union.

She swore an oath never, under any cost, to reveal OSS secrets.