Sentence examples for religious oath from inspiring English sources

But to undertake the reform of a religious institution, addressing serious violations of a religious oath, one must begin from a base of faith.

In the 19th century, your party succeeded in securing the imprisonment of an MP, Charles Bradlaugh, on the basis that he felt he wouldn't take a religious oath when taking his seat.

The Italian prime minister was filmed cracking jokes to members of the public which depicted Jews as money-grabbers, mocked the appearance of a female opposition MP and used the Italian language's most offensive religious oath.

These folks are less interested in taking a religious oath and more interested in getting their work done.

When Chloe Smith, Conservative MP for Norwich North, took her seat in Parliament in 2009, she opted to affirm rather than swear a religious oath of allegiance to the Queen.

He was Greece's first prime minister to take a civil rather than a religious oath, and yet his first visit after he was elected was to the head of the Church of Greece.

"Profanity" refers specifically to religious oaths.

In careful usage, the anatomical slang in question is best characterized as "vulgar"; "profane" normally suggests religious oaths.

By the Victorian era religious oaths had lost much of their power, and swearing had come mostly to resemble our own.

For hundreds of years, during the Middle Ages, the worst words were religious oaths such as "by God" or "by God's bones".

These plaintive pleas for help have included forced attendance at military Holiday Balls with clear, Christian sectarian religious themes, the coerced swearing of religious oaths, mandatory "spiritual fitness" testing and a veritable plethora of other "spiritual rape" grievances large and small across the entirety of the United States armed forces home and abroad.