"We swore that, until our goal was achieved, we would not reveal it to a soul".
This year, we swore that we wouldn't do it again, so, after months of saving and weeks of careful research, we finally sprung for the air-conditioner that topped everyone's list.
Two months later, my newborn son on my shoulder as the judge led us through reciting the oath, just as we swore "that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States", the most enormous noise came out of his rear end and echoed around the courtroom.
We swore that Iraq would be the last time.
(There are black people in Nebraska, we swear!) That's where you come in, readers.
We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp (near Damascus in Syria), will happen in Gaza".
We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza," he said, referring to Islamic State advances in Syria, including in a Damascus district founded by Palestinian refugees.
"We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day God willing, like France's and by God, as we struck France in the centre of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its centre in Washington," one man in the video said.
"We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France's and by God, as we struck France in the centre of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington," the man said.
First delivered by the Belgian fencer Victor Boin, it read, "We swear that we are taking part in the Olympic Games as loyal competitors, observing the rules governing the Games, and anxious to show a spirit of chivalry, for the honor of our countries and for the glory of sport".
After the students read their proclamation, the crowd chanted a censored patriotic poem the "National Song", which refrains: "This we swear, this we swear, that we will no longer be slaves".
