Fifty-five years ago, my father took a vow to die for his personal computer.
Federle made a vow a week before he turned 30 to write a novel.
Partnership managers' boodle makes hedge fund operators look as if they've taken a vow of poverty.
Cardinals who take part in the process take a vow of "absolute and perpetual secrecy".
Obama's budget director made a vow Sunday that the president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.
Their position was that they had taken a vow of poverty and transferred all their property to BAM.
For over 98 percent of all non-fiction authors, commitment to any of these requires a vow of poverty.
Unless you have taken a vow of poverty, being a minister does not excuse you from the custom of tipping.
Among the welcome changes is a vow to ease foreign investment restriction in key market segments including retail and aviation.
Ministers took a vow of poverty, renounced all worldly possessions and transferred title to all their assets to a Church trust.
As for Dr. Pepper: the refrain among commenters is a vow to buy more of the soda as a result of the ad.
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When I started having kids, I made a vow to be a father with energy -- you've got to be responsible for you health.
They insist that their results are reproducible, and that corporate clients who have tested their materials (under a vow of silence) have been satisfied.
When a monk takes a vow of silence, he does so in order to shut out the world and devote himself exclusively to things of the spirit.
Linda Walsh - a grandmother from Texas - said she was glad a Jesuit who had taken a vow of poverty had been chosen to lead the Church.
Nor, given the position of successive Israeli governments, can Mr Arafat promise anything from the final-status talks, except, perhaps, a vow not to renounce the right of return.
Patrick's Day prompted Gov. Paul LePage to relent on a vow to veto any bill that reached his desk before lawmakers pass his proposal to pay a state debt to hospitals.
Dr Brady has defended his role in a meeting where two children abused by Father Brendan Smyth were asked to take a vow of silence as part of an internal church investigation.
Mr Obama wants to show he is honouring the central bargain of the treaty: that the five nuclear-weapons states would disarm in return for a vow by other countries not to seek nuclear weapons.
Mr Uribe's mother, Orquedia Garza, said her son had steered clear of the five-tiered wedding cake - a vow he made when he announced the date of his wedding at the start of the month.
Those include a pilot program to test the use of platform barrier doors on the L subway line, and a vow to explore the installation of an automated warning system that would alert train controllers when a person is on the tracks.
Al-Khatib, a respected preacher who has led the Syrian National Coalition since its creation late last year, said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that he was making good on a vow to quit if certain undefined "red lines" were crossed.
The United States has "never been more excited" to work as equal partners with countries in Latin America, Obama said earlier Saturday -- a vow that's been made before by U.S. presidents, but that nonetheless drew applause from the audience of business leaders.
In line with a vow he had made to himself as a young man to remain inscrutable to all but his most intimate friends, he cultivated a cold, haughty manner in public and refused to countenance any questions about his often decisive role in the family business.
What seems more than a bit disingenuous is to take a bullet point in a preamble, and make it seem that this was the main thrust of something that Michele Bachmann signed, when it reality, what she signed was a vow to defend the traditional notions of marriage and family in both the public and private sphere.
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After that difficult day, I made a personal vow to become a better citizen, which starts with becoming better informed.
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