oath

Example Sentences

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"It makes me even more delighted to have a 35-year-old youth as my successor," the outgoing interim prime minister, who hugged Shah after he took the oath, said in a statement.

From Barron's

New lawmakers took the oath of office on Thursday in a hall within the newly constructed parliament building.

From Barron's

In the nave she will swear an oath on the Saint John's Bible, the first time a new bible has been used since 1945, in what is being seen as a reflection of modernisation.

From BBC

But Subramanyam told the BBC that lawmakers would be "happy to work out terms that work for her", as long as she was under oath.

From BBC

It functions as a loyalty oath, one ritual in a much larger pattern of humiliation and dominance.

From Salon