Sentence examples for sort of oath from inspiring English sources

After the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, however, Hitchens announced he was no longer on the left – while denying he had become any kind of conservative – and "swore a sort of oath to remain coldly furious" until "fascism with an Islamic face" was "brought to a most strict and merciless account".

The Republicans, many of whom have sworn some sort of blood oath to Grover Norquist, have rejected any plan that even closes a tax loophole.

Don't become a teacher unless you are prepared to sign some sort of Hippocratic Oath inside your head to this effect, because you will need to hold onto this as you struggle not to shout at, put down, be sarcastic to, cry in front of or drop a heavy object onto the foot of that particular student who drives you insane every single day.

Like doctors, the companies we trust with our data need to commit to a sort of Hippocratic oath.

Ancient ethical codes were often compiled in the form of oaths, the most famous being the Oath of Hippocretes [ 2].

Did Obama and his allies swear some sort of basketball-court oath, and then seize the White House?

So one way to see the drive for austerity is as an application of a sort of reverse Hippocratic oath: "First, do nothing to mitigate harm".

They were taking some sort of pledge or oath.

In fact, Sarah Obama never filed an affidavit, nor was she placed under any sort of legally binding "oath".

And yet the law had already permitted Jones to ask, and required Clinton to answer under oath, the sort of aggressively intrusive questions any man would do what he could to evade, the law be damned.

"My solution would be, to what everyone else has called the law of the land, is have an online issuance for marriage licenses so that it takes it out of the hands of the individual," Davis told local NBC affiliate Lex 18. "I think I deserve some sort of relief that I took my oath to do this job to the best of my ability, so help me God.