Bradlaugh administered the oath to himself and was expelled anyway.
"If he is serious about redemption, he will go before an appropriate tribunal, give evidence under oath, subject himself to cross-examination, name names, say who in the entourage was helping him cheat, who supplied the drugs, which officials warned him he might be tested and who in the way of riders was associated with it.
Vladislas made no secret of his dislike of the Utraquist rites, but, by his coronation oath, he obligated himself to respect the basic Hussite tenets outlined in the Compacts of Basel.
But what Mr. Penelas and others did in front of the federal courthouse on Wednesday afternoon reminded him of George Wallace on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery in 1963, when, "in the face of a federalized force, he violated his oath and disgraced himself," Mr. Harris said.
An army of 10 million people in Germany was compelled to give an oath to Hitler himself, personally.
In his Senate testimony last week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly lied under oath to defend himself against a credible allegation of sexual assault.
Shortly after taking the oath, Booker found himself thrown into one of the most parochial of Senate battles, involving a decades-old rule that gives the minority party the ability to block Senate action on a matter even if it has majority support.
On their appointment, these senior commanders swore a blood oath to Bin Laden himself.
The Fulton County district attorney, Paul Howard, issued an arrest warrant for felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and violation of his oath, and Burns turned himself in.
— In the fight of his life, Roger Clemens has been called a cheat and has been summoned to defend himself under oath before a Congressional committee.
