Even after backing down, Khrushchev found solace in the fact that Washington had taken him seriously, vowing not to invade Cuba in exchange for a Soviet promise to withdraw the missiles.
The Bush administration, however, said it took the charge seriously and vowed to investigate.
Following his rookie season, Manziel said he regretted not taking his job more seriously and vowed to come back better.
The companies said they took the problem of Russia using their platforms to tamper in the US election seriously and vowed new safeguards.
President Bush assured the rest of the world yesterday that he takes the threat of climate change seriously and vowed that the United States "will do its part" to reduce the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet, but he proposed no concrete new initiatives to reach that goal.
City leaders claim to be taking this epidemic seriously; they vowed to end traffic deaths by 2025 with a citywide traffic safety plan called Vision Zero.
When a disillusioned young advocate didn't think public health officials were taking drug overdose deaths seriously, he vowed to step in.
But he also vowed, quite seriously, that he would be back among them.
He has vowed to seriously explore increasing the World Cup field to 40 teams, from 32. "In my position as general secretary of UEFA, I am dealing every day with associations, with leagues, with clubs, with heads of state," he said in a recent interview.
So when brides and grooms don't take planning their wedding vows seriously, I think it's a disservice to the institution of marriage at large.
Noor Bano, a former Naroda Patiya resident whose two teenage sons were seriously injured during the attacks, vowed in an interview to continue fighting for justice.
