Stepping to microphones in pairs, carrying flowers and photos of the dead or wearing T-shirts bearing their likenesses, many added personal messages, speaking intimately to their loved ones, saying, in effect, we love you, we miss you, and renewing pledges of fidelity, telling of the births of grandchildren or other family events.
Second, fertile countries are both more desirable than barren countries and easier to conquer: they "are always of a level surface, where the inhabitants are unable to dispute against a stronger power; they are then obliged to submit; and when they have once submitted, the spirit of liberty cannot return; the wealth of the country is a pledge of their fidelity" (SL 18.2).
Except that no one familiar with the inner workings of this dysfunctional family of nations has any reason to believe that this pledge of fiscal fidelity will survive any better than so many other past declarations of faith.
But remember, this was supposed to be about marriage and family, of which, the pledge asserts, fidelity is an indispensable part (yes, Dan Savage would beg to differ).
A 'ménage à trois' implies some kind of fidelity".
Why was that kind of fidelity important to you?
In the novel, these questions of fidelity and treachery hover.
Confirmation hearings have become exercises in evasion, as judicial nominees pledge their fidelity to legal platitudes while refusing to provide any specifics.
And there is the particularly bizarre Marriage Vow, in which candidates agree to oppose same-sex marriage, reject Shariah law and pledge personal fidelity to their spouse.
Now I had to address the problem of fidelity.
