MPs who hold no truck with Almighty God are allowed to swear allegiance without reference to the might of any deity.
In May 2001, Abu Ghaith urged individuals at a guest house in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to swear allegiance to bin Laden, according to the charges.
Mr Adams and Northern Ireland Education Minister Martin McGuinness both refuse to take their seats because it would require them to swear allegiance to the Queen.
Whereas Mr Sharif and Ms Bhutto packed the supreme court with their supporters, General Musharraf sacked half its judges for refusing to swear allegiance to him.
Every politician must swear allegiance and submission to the law.
Those who come to power through a coup, like General Musharraf, have a considerable advantage here: they can require senior judges to swear allegiance to them and sack the ones who won't.
There can be a non-English Archbishop of Canterbury as long, at the present time, as long as that person can swear allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen because of the nature of the establishment.
There are now countless Islamic centers, mosques and extremist organizations of all kinds incorporated in the U.S. that officially swear allegiance to shariah in their bylaws in blatant disregard to the law of the land.
Correspondents say the government's left-wing opponents often label it fascist, but the allegation is more damaging when it comes from a publication linked to the Catholic Church, to which many centre-right politicians and their supporters swear allegiance.
The filing includes a copy of a previously filed affidavit of a child psychologist hired by the Miami relatives who had predicted Elian would be forced to wear a bandana and be ordered to swear allegiance to "Los Pioneros" (the Pioneers) and "undergo formal indoctrination in Communist ideology" if returned to Cuba.
Immediately, his passengers were made members of the Right Wheel Group or the Left Wing Club, and Mr Laker would appear at Gatwick with a Bible on which they would swear club allegiance if the airline snoops were watching.
If elected to Parliament, your columnist would also be only too happy to swear the oath of allegiance required in that place.
Those applying for British citizenship will take exams on various aspects of the UK and its society and ultimately attend a ceremony where they will swear an oath of allegiance.
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.
New members are now required only to swear by Almighty God that they will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and her heirs and successors.
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