Sentence examples for oath against from inspiring English sources

In 1910, Pius X further demanded that all current and future Catholic clergymen swear a lengthy oath against modernism, ratifying in detail the condemnations of "Pascendi".

In the decades after World War II, the United States turned a blind eye to the despotic shenanigans of countless dictators, provided that those dictators swore an oath against the scourge of Communism.

Salvador Estrella Sadhalá, known as "Turk", is a devout Catholic who, in indignation at the regime's many crimes against God, swears an oath against Trujillo.

So they refuse to violate the GOP loyalty oath against raising taxes, even as they are about to run California off a fiscal cliff.

Public health advocates have long argued that the anti-prostitution pledge makes it impossible for organizations to implement HIV prevention programs with sex worker communities in a non-judgmental spirit of solidarity -- how do you take an oath against a community's activities and then work in partnership with them?

If you ignore the line-up cars and the drivers muttering oaths against their lot, the helix is a graceful, improbable thing.

If the actual battle took place, it would occur in judicial lists, 60 feet square, following the taking of oaths against witchcraft and sorcery.

But just how does a loyalty oath guard against such dangers?

The oath argues against the shareholder-centric orthodoxy that has held Anglo-American capitalism in its grip since the '80s.

After exacting an oath of vengeance against the Tarquins from her father and her husband, she stabbed herself to death.

Here it's the ancient solemnity of an oath bumping up against modern technology that strikes off comic sparks.