Sentence examples for collective oath from inspiring English sources

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, an Italian and the senior cardinal present, led them in a collective oath, in Latin, to maintain secrecy and obedience to the constitution on papal transition.

The council also gave another collective oath of allegiance to recognise her as Henry's heir.

Amid a huge feast in the neighbouring hall, reminiscent of Arthurian legends and crusading events, the assembly took a collective oath to defeat Bruce.

On occasion jurors were summoned to give a collective verdict under oath.

The men belonged to a group named the Oath Keepers, a collective of former and current military servicemen and police officers who claim to defend the US constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic".

The film world is now being asked to look into its collective heart and plunk down its loyalty oaths.

From 1720 to 1722 the hong merchants established a system of collective price-fixing, which required the taking of a blood oath, as practiced by the Chinese merchant guilds.

He is more circumspect when it comes to collective German responsibility for the Holocaust… Tells about the oath of loyalty to the state that German Catholic bishops have been required to take since 1933… Discusses Ratzinger's tenure as archbishop of Munich and Freising, where the memorial site to the Dachau concentration camp is located.

WHEN Macky Sall swore the presidential oath on April 2nd, his nation of 13m released a collective whistle of relief.

A collective chorus of voices with a wide range of pitches delivered a full-throated oath.

Even though Mr. Gigante — a nephew of Vincent Gigante, the former boss of the Genovese crime family — was a union representative, he admitted under oath that he didn't know that the letters C.B.A. stood for collective bargaining agreement.