Yet, some choose to violate their oaths in the furtherance of divergent policy agendas.
West Bengal Governor Viren Shah also renewed the oaths of office of the 43 member council of ministers.
What goes on before jurors even take their oaths can decide who wins.
Last year, students at the Telfer School of Management (University of Ottawa) and Harvard Business School adopted ethical conduct oaths.
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In addition to our legal system, other sectors of our society rely on oaths to ensure truthfulness and uphold values.
High priests of doom told them so, extracting oaths of fealty and offerings of penance for promised interventions on their behalf.
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"I have decided that my oaths of secrecy must give way to my sense of right and wrong, " he told WorldNetDaily.
Group discussions have been concluded, oaths of secrecy have been sworn and mobile phones have been handed in to ensure total secrecy.
While the oaths were student-sponsored, these proclamations rang hollow amidst a recession.
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Mike, Emma and James decided to make their oaths of allegiance together.
The band of Manchurian guerrillas who had attended the state's birth appeared bound by almost chivalric oaths of fealty, trust and reciprocal obligation.
In November last year, MBA candidates at three business schools across the country decided to initiate oaths of ethical conduct for all graduating students.
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And the fundamental fact there is that we make these pledges and we give these oaths not to a party but to our country.
These oaths passed to a second generation, and the families of that early band of brothers now occupy nearly every significant position in the state.
Sorenson said Bishop has shown he can't be trusted in part because he violated security oaths by failing to tell the government about his contact with the woman.
According to the rules laid down in the festival program, owners are required to swear religious oaths that the stated age and lineage of their animals is correct.
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Mr Cox, a former television presenter, is loquacious and intellectual, a fastidious dresser with a taste for outsized cufflinks, who spatters his conversation equally with French phrases and Anglo-Saxon oaths.
Most people do not care to remember that Mr Chaudhry and his colleagues also took their oaths after Mr Musharraf's first coup in 1999 and owe their promotions to him.
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For its part, Congress must afford them opportunities to do so in a manner consistent with officers' constitutional oaths and in keeping with the imperative of civilian control of the military.
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In Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady, the primate, has admitted that he was present in 1975 when two teenage boys were persuaded to sign oaths of silence about their abuse by Father Brendan Smyth.
Levin hauled all of the principals from these rotten Goldman deals to Washington, made them put their hands on the Bible and take oaths just like normal people, and demanded that they explain themselves.
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The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, the Quakers and Moravians Act 1833, the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 and the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 have progressively chiselled away the direct religious content of the oath.
Gaia, Greek Goddess of Earth, was worshipped on the island of Crete as the ancient mistress of all the animals, and the many cults that grew up in her name gave rise to modern geography, the now accepted biochemical Gaia Hypothesis, and what the ancient Greeks considered the most sacred of all oaths: our indebtedness to Earth.
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