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oath

An oath is a very serious promise. An oath is a swear word or curse.

oath

(= expletive) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger expletives were deleted a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior they took an oath of allegiance

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Simple sentences

The knight swore an oath of allegiance to the king.
He said under oath that he was born in Italy.
Doctors take an oath not to harm anyone.
When the Father asked the bride to repeat the oath, she stayed silent.
I'd like to remind you that you're under oath.
I remind you that you are still under oath.
Remember you are under oath.
You are under oath.
He said under oath that his birthplace was Italy.
She gave her oath that she would not drink.
The doctor broke the Hippocratic Oath.
Oath is an oath.
When I got married, I gave my oath to Fadil.

Movie subtitles

I cannot. An oath that I swore my father renders it impossible.
You can reveal whatever you want to the world, but you will never persuade me to break the oath that I swore to my husband.
Ask King Attilla, Margrave Ruediger, if he is ready to make your oath his own!
Why does he not fulfill his oath?
King Attilla, remember your oath!
Remember you oath, Attilla!
Redeem your oath!
My oath to Kriemhild is older than my oath to you!
Don't force me to break my oath!
I once broke the oath to be silent and never will do so again!
I'm under oath, Your Honor.
No other pledge shall bind one who has taken the Crusader's Oath.
Then give me the Oath.
His oath transformed him!
No more than his own! He's also under oath.
Why don't you bring him here and let me question him under oath?
We will now take the oath.
And remember: once taken, this oath has never been broken by any man, down through the centuries of time, in the history of this fraternal organisation.
Shh! Place yourself in position to receive the oath.
Why didn't you want to take the oath?
I was afraid that if I took the oath to go to the convention, maybe my wife wouldn't let me go.
You took an oath!
The Exhausted Ruler said that if you took an oath, it would have to be broken for generations of centuries of hundreds of years.
A little earlier in the day, you took an oath not to see her.
I've got to proceed with this case as my oath of office requires.
I will remind the witness that she is under oath and ask her again.
On my oath he was not your father!
Then kneel and swear this oath.
Look here, will you take an oath that they were with you tonight at Belle's?
Back to bed unless you give me your oath you'll speak in a civilized tone.
Do you realize you're under oath to tell the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I took a sacred oath I would.
Yes, sir. Please kiss this Bible as a solemn oath that you've told the truth.
Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.
Dear Charlotta, those who have sworn the oath cannot share anything.
Forgot your boy scout oath, didn't you?
In here you make your deposition under oath.
It's the best I can do, that's my solemn oath.
Well, upon my oath, my dear Throstle, you might try knocking occasionally.
She's not under oath.

News and current affairs

For physicians, the idea of swearing an oath to act ethically goes back to Hippocrates.
But, like medical doctors' Hippocratic oath, America and others must pledge to do no harm in promoting democracy.
But even when making these graduated choices, a leader also owes his followers a duty of prudence - of remembering the Hippocratic oath to first of all, do no harm.
They stood with and for their judges, making it virtually impossible for judges willing to take Musharraf's oath of allegiance to operate.
One example is the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which requires all succeeding sovereigns of the United Kingdom to take an oath to maintain the Church of Scotland and the Church of England.
Yet no one thought much about it when American presidents of different faiths swore their oath of office to God and country.
It is normally understood as the Hippocratic Oath applied to the global ecology: above all, do no harm.
The wording of the new MBA oath draws on one adopted in 2006 by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona. Nevertheless, the fact that it has been taken up by the world's most famous business school is significant.
The MBA oath is an attempt to replace the Friedmanite view of the social responsibility of business with something quite different: a management profession that commits itself to promoting the long-term, sustainable welfare of all.
For starters, governments should take the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath and pledge to do no active harm to the planet.
For 50 years, tobacco companies employed a stable of scientists to assert (sometimes under oath) that they did not believe there was conclusive evidence that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer.
Breaking an oath to tell the truth is perjury, and lying in official documents is both perjury and fraud.
Along the way, Americans will gain a better sense of whom to vote for, and people everywhere will develop a better sense of what to expect in January 2017, when the 45th US president takes the oath of office.
In foreign policy, as in medicine, it is important to remember the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm.
The wording of the new MBA oath draws on one adopted in 2006 by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona.

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