There is even at one point a mild oath that is sometimes heard in television sitcoms.
Although he was never an excited partisan, he was thoroughly Puritan in spirit and refused to take the oath that was prescribed by the Act of Uniformity.
(His own high-school diploma, he told me, was jeopardized, because he refused to sign the loyalty oath that was then a requirement of graduation).
But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her dream.
The New Yorker, January 8 , 1966P. 19 Comment on Rutger University declining to appoint Norman Fruchter writer-in-residence because he refuses to sign the loyalty oath that is required ofall its employees.
5.12pm GMT And here's quite a juxtaposition from Obama on the subject of his presidential oath The words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her dream.
"Perjury is a statement under oath that is false and carries a potential prison sentence of up to five years," said Slotnick.
In that brief moment, and since, I have been able to reflect on what the oath that was taken by those people from 33 different nations means to me, someone that was lucky enough to be born an American citizen.
Ben Becker, a spokesman for the Senate Agriculture Committee, which heard testimony from Steenkamp in December, said: "If false testimony was delivered to a congressional panel while under oath, that is a serious offense.
As I read article after article, I can't help but think that perhaps your TV persona has clouded your judgment and compromised the Hippocratic Oath that is sacred and binding to those in the field of medicine.
