Sworn Sentence Examples

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  • He's sworn to protect our world.

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  • I've sworn not to.

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  • Last night she could have sworn he loved her.

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  • Until now she would have sworn that he was the one who never expressed his feelings.

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  • He was sworn to secrecy, but he was still asking for her input in the only way he could.

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  • She could have sworn she locked the door.

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  • It also crossed her mind that pilfering through his things to get information about something for which he had sworn to be silent would be a great invasion of his privacy.

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  • It is a sworn statement of the earl of Morton, written in 1568.

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  • Since that fateful day, she'd sworn never to share herself with anyone.

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  • Or have you already sworn an oath to Memon?

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  • In t605 he was sworn a member of the privy council.

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  • In 1514 More was made master of the requests, knighted, and sworn a member of the privy council.

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  • Joseph was never recognized, and allegiance was sworn to Ferdinand (1809).

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  • Until that moment, she would have sworn he couldn't look better.

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  • The people around her—the White God she was sworn to serve as a Guardian—needed her.

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  • As the White God, he was sworn to protect humanity.

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  • She'd sworn an oath to Darian, and the last thing she wanted was to return to the immortal world and wait for the Others to grab her.

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  • But there was no getting over the fact that his father had sworn "before the Almighty and His judgment seat" to pardon him and let him live in peace if he returned to Russia.

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  • On the 21st of December 1443 he was sworn to the statutes by Bishop Bekynton and the earl of Suffolk, the king's commissioners, and himself administered the oath to the other members of the foundation, then only five fellows and eleven scholars over fifteen years of age.

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  • In 939 Louis became involved in a struggle with the emperor Otto the Great on the question of Lorraine, the nobles of which district had sworn an oath of fidelity to the king of France.

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  • Its early - Protestant sympathies placed it on the side of Sweden during the Thirty Years' War, and in 1628 it successfully resisted a siege of eleven weeks by Wallenstein, who had sworn to take it "though it were chained to heaven."

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  • Riotous scenes occurred both in Sydney and on the coal-fields, and a large number of special constables were sworn in by the government.

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  • C. Druce's younger son and executor, for having sworn that he had seen his father die ill 1864.

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  • In 1913 he was appointed Solicitor-General in the Borden administration and in 1915 was sworn of the Privy Council for Canada.

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  • It recognizes the will and attaches great importance to written deeds, but on the other hand sanctions the judicial duel and the cojuratores (sworn witnesses).

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  • By midsummer the Albanian leaders and the greater part of the Turkish army in Europe had sworn fidelity to the constitution.

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  • They intervened in case of the king's falling sick, when it was assumed that some man had sworn by the king's hearth and broken his oath.

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  • She had sworn to her first husband on his deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprisoned and exiled Romanus, who was suspected of aspiring to the throne.

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  • With the revolution which speedily followed this impolitic trial, new troubles encountered Ken; for, having sworn allegiance to James, he thought himself thereby precluded from taking the oath to William of Orange.

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  • In the Ripuarian Law a certain importance attaches to written deeds; the clergy are protected by a higher wer gild- 600 solidi for a priest, and 900 for a bishop; on the other hand, more space is given to the cojuratores (sworn witnesses); and we note the appearance of the judicial duel, which is not mentioned in the Salic Law.

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  • The capitularies of 805 and 821 also contain vague references to sworn unions of some sort, and a capitulary of 884 prohibits villeins from forming associations "vulgarly called gilds" against those who have despoiled them.

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  • For the Master hath sworn by His glory (` His Son,' below) touching His elect, that if there be more sinning after this day which He hath limited, they shall not obtain salvation.

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  • The gustatores cervisiae - called in different localities by the different names "ale-tasters," "ale-founders," and "aleconners" - were sworn to examine beer and ale, to take care that they were good and wholesome and were sold at proper prices.

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  • On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.

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  • Resuming the struggle against the Hohenstaufen, Lothair soon obtained the submission of the brothers, who retained their lands, and a general peace was sworn at Bamberg.

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  • By the craft of Hera, his foe through life, his birth was delayed, and that of Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus of Argos, hastened, Zeus having in effect sworn that the elder of the two should rule the realm of Perseus.

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  • After a fourth Easter synod in 1053 Leo set out against the Normans in the south with an army of Italians and German volunteers, but his forces sustained a total defeat at Astagnum near Civitella (18th June 1053); on going out, however, from the city to meet the enemy he was received with every token of submission, relief from the pressure of his ban was implored and fidelity and homage were sworn.

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  • Governor-elect Goebel was shot by an assassin on the 30th of January 1900, was sworn into office on his deathbed, and died on the 3rd of February.

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  • However, he soon ingratiated himself with Warwick, and on the 15th of September 1550 he was sworn one of the king's two secretaries.

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  • His successor, Sir John Thompson, after a successful leadership of about two years, died suddenly of heart disease at Windsor Castle, immediately after being sworn of the imperial privy council.

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  • In the state of Massachusetts, for instance, an act passed in 1892, and subsequently amended, provides that political committees shall file a full statement, duly sworn to, of all campaign expenditures made by them.

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  • In the state of New York the act which seeks to prevent corrupt practices relies in like manner on the efficacy of publicity, but it is less effective than the Massachusetts law in that it provides simply for the filing by the candidates themselves of sworn statements of their own expenses.

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  • Being sworn, he detailed a confidential conversation he had had with the prisoner in the Tower.

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  • Into the midst of this region of banditti Sigismund came as a sort of grand justiciar, a sworn enemy of every sort of disorder.

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  • On the reorganization of the Labour party in 1917, Mr. Adamson succeeded Mr. Arthur Henderson as its chairman, and in 1918 he was sworn of the Privy Council.

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  • To make it easier, the justiciar ordered the assessment to be made by a sworn jury in every hundred, and one may reasonably conjecture that these jurors were also elected.

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  • These advocates are not state officials, but are sworn to the due execution of their duties.

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  • For fifty years the main efforts of Louis were directed to defending his kingdom from the inroads of his Slavonic neighbors, and his detachment from the rest of the Empire necessitated by these constant engagements towards the east, gradually gave both him and his subjects a distinctive character, which was displayed and emphasized when, in ratifying an alliance with his half-brother, the West-Frankish king, Charles the Bald, the oath was sworn in different tongues.

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  • Oaths were generally sworn by the life of the king.

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  • On the 17th of October the charter, which the king had sworn to observe twelve years before, was solemnly handed back to him at the palace, Frederick III.

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  • In February 1886 he was appointed president of the board of trade, with a seat in the cabinet, and was sworn a member of the privy council.

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  • The Ragman's Roll contains sworn submissions of all probi homines outside of the western thoroughly Celtic region; and, in October 1296, Edward returned to England, with Baliol his prisoner, leaving Scotland in the hands of the earl of Surrey as guardian, Cressingham as treasurer, and Ormsby as justiciary.

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  • The god, who had sworn to refuse Semele nothing, unwillingly consented.

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  • On the 11th of October 1551 he was knighted; in 1553 he was made one of the secretaries of state, and sworn of the privy council.

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  • The archbishop had sworn to Henry I.

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  • In 1915 he was sworn of the Privy Council and in 1919 he became K.C. He published The Case for Labour and other pamphlets, and a collection of his speeches in Great Britain appeared in 1918.

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  • Under the new constitution, the permission of parliament was necessary before the king could leave Neapolitan territory; but this was weakly granted, after Ferdinand had sworn the most solemn oaths to maintain the constitution.

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  • The unit of inquiry was the Hundred (a subdivision of the county which had then an administrative entity), and the return for each Hundred was sworn to by twelve local jurors, half of them English and half Normans.

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  • In 1820 the Spanish constitution was duly sworn to in California, and in 1822 allegiance was given to Mexico.

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  • God's comrade or sworn ally.

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  • Simultaneously Wladislaus contracted an offensive and defensive alliance with Venice against the Porte, a treaty directly contrary indeed to the pacta conventa he had sworn to observe, but excusable in the desperate circumstances.

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  • They exceeded their orders, which were to prevent the archbishop from entering England until he had sworn fealty to Richard.

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  • Its most interesting political document is the form of oath sworn to by all the citizens in the 3rd century B.C.

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  • The first constables appointed were 3000 in number, who, when sworn in, enjoyed all the powers of the old constables under the common law, for preserving the peace, preventing robberies and other felonies, and apprehending offenders.

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  • He adhered to the creed of his mother rather than to that of his father; and, in spite of a solemn oath sworn to his predecessor that he would not restore the Catholic churches to their owners, he at once proceeded to do so and to recall the bishops.

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  • While "of right," it is not "of course," and is granted only on application to the High Court or a judge thereof, supported by a sworn statement of facts setting up at least a probable case of illegal confinement.

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  • The first general assembly of deputies of Bolivia dissolved itself on the 6th of October 1825, and a new congress was summoned and formally installed at Chuquisaca on the 25th of May 1826, to take into consideration the constitution prepared by Bolivar for the new republic. A favourable report was made to that body by a committee appointed to examine it, on which it was approved by the congress, and declared to be the constitution of the republic; and as such, it was sworn to by the people.

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  • In 1712 he was appointed one of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral, and in 1714 became treasurer of the navy, being sworn in two years later as a member of the privy council.

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  • On the 21st of July sworn evidence, which was supplemented on the 23rd of July, was obtained and laid before the commissioners of customs (who were the proper authorities to enforce the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1819), but they declined to move.

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  • Sir Hercules Robinson, afterwards Lord Rosmead, was sworn in as governor in 1872.

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  • In 1901 he was sworn of the Privy Council and in 1902 he was created G.C.M.G.

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  • There are notaries and clerks, auditors for each parish elected by the heads of families, police agents and bailiffs, chosen and sworn in, like all the above officers, by the Council General.

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  • This caused a miniature rebellion, and on its suppression five ringleaders were publicly hanged at the spot - Slachters Nek - where they had sworn to expel " the English tyrants."

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  • He had twice sworn, with gratuitous solemnity, to maintain the new constitution; but he was hardly out of Naples before he repudiated his oaths and, in letters addressed to all the sovereigns of Europe, declared his acts to have been null and void.

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  • Some of the members of the university who had lately sworn allegiance to James had some difficulty in swearing allegiance to his successor.

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  • A forester was "an officer sworn to preserve the vert and venison in the forest, and to attend upon the wild beasts within his bailiwick."

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  • But he was merely biding his time; he had sworn pichacd revenge in his heart, but he was ready to wait long for rules con- it.

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  • The systefn had spread so far that the majority of the smaller tenants-in-chief, and even many of the lesser barons, were the sworn followers of an insignificant number of the greater lords.

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  • Their preparations excited general alarm, and on the invitation Chartism of the government no less than 170,000 special constables were sworn in to protect life and property against a rabble.

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  • It was objected that, as he had publicly declared that the words of the oath bad no clear meaning for him, he could not be permitted to take it; and after some wrangling the matter was referred to a fresh committee, which supported the view that Bradlaugh could not be allowed to be sworn, but recommended that he should be permitted to niake the affirmation at his own risk.

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  • For, while hitherto the debate had turn.ed on the technical points whether an affirmation could be substituted for an oath, or whether a person who had declared that an oath had no meaning for him could properly be sworn, the end at which Bradlaughs opponents were thenceforward aiming was the imposition of a new religious testthe belief in a Godon members of the House of Commons.

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  • The constitution was approved by Congress and signed by the president on the 29th of May 1848; the first state election had already been held on the 8th of May, and Governor Nelson Dewey and other state officers were sworn into office on the 7th of June.

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  • Later is the Fostbreedrasaga (1015-1030), a very interesting story, told in a quaint romantic style, of Thorgeir, the reckless henchman of King Olaf, and how his death was revenged in Greenland by his sworn brother the true-hearted Thormod Coalbrow's poet, who afterward dies at Sticklestad.

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  • There were also some 9,000 dismissals of public servants for political reasons; but nearly all of these men were subsequently reinstated by the Venizelist Government itself, after they had sworn allegiance to the new order of things.

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  • This latter, indeed, appears to have been concocted by Gerald, an ardent champion of the English cause in Ireland, from genuine letters of Pope Alexander III., still preserved in the Black Book of the Exchequer, which do no more than commend King Henry for reducing the Irish to order and extirpating tantae abominationis spurcitiam, and exhort the Irish bishops and chiefs to be faithful to the king to whom they had sworn allegiance.'

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  • Anne Boleyn's daughter succeeded quietly, and Sir Henry Sidney was sworn lord-justice with the full Catholic ritual.

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  • He only let him depart when he had sworn in the treaty of Pronne to fulfil the engagements made at Conflans and Saint-Maur to assist in person at the subjugation of rebellious Liege, an.d to give Champagne as an appanage to his ally the duke of Berry.

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  • Fleurys inclination was not to misuse Frances traditional policy by exaggerating it, but to respect his sworn word; he dared not press his opinion, however, and yielded to the fiery impatience of young hot-heads like the two Belle-Isles, and of all those who, infatuated by Frederick II., felt sick of doing nothing at Versailles and were backed up by Louis XV.s bellicose mistresses.

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  • But even before the new constitution was published and sworn, on the I9th of March 1812, large numbers of Spaniards had made up their minds that after the invaders were driven out the Cortes must be suppressed.

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  • He supposes "a change in Satan in the course of the history of the divine revelation, in conflict with which he came step by step to be a sworn enemy of God and man, especially in the New Testament times, in which, on the other hand, his power is broken at the root by Christ."

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  • In the time of stage-coaches a custom was introduced of making ignorant persons believe that they required to be sworn and admitted to the freedom of the Highgate before being allowed to pass the gate, the fine of admission being a bottle of wine.

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  • In December 1760 he was appointed general of the marines, with a salary of £3000 per annum, and was also sworn a member of the privy council.

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  • Two days later Cesarini received the tidings that a fleet of galleys had set off for the Bosporus to prevent Murad (who, crushed by his recent disasters, had retired to Asia Minor) from recrossing into Europe, and the cardinal reminded the king that he had sworn to co-operate by land if the western powers attacked the Turks by sea.

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  • A general peace (Landfrieden), which became the basis of all such peaces in the future, was sworn to; a new office, that of imperial justiciar, was created, and a permanent judicial record was first instituted.

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  • In January 1887 Mercier was sworn in as premier and attorney-general, and from this moment he exercised an extraordinary influence in the province.

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  • The two elder, as bound to him by blood-brotherhood, refused; but the youngest, Guthorm, who had sworn no oaths, consented to do the deed.

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  • But although the young king had not yet sworn to observe the charter, and in any case the other Italian princes had all violated their constitutional promises, he rejected the offer.

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  • From Guardians, like Sean, who are sworn to protect people like you.

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  • The people around her—the White God she was sworn to serve as a Guardian—needed her.

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  • She'd sworn never to be vulnerable again or to become emotionally involved with anyone.

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  • The Watchers and their sworn enemies, the Others, are uniting.

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  • This corroborates the sworn statement made by Margaret Fox, April 11, 1848.

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  • Loans in excess of US$1000 at the individual group member level must be accompanied by a sworn affidavit of securities pledged.

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  • A copy of the sworn affidavit was obtained at the federal high court.

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  • The doctor was sworn one of the king's chaplains by the Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, who truly honored him.

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  • I screamed at it to let go, and I could have sworn I heard the old man chuckle.

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  • At the Easter Visitations, new churchwardens for each parish were sworn in to act during the following year.

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  • Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

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  • Northern Isles depute fiscal sworn in The Northern Isles ' new depute fiscal sworn in The Northern Isles ' new depute fiscal has been sworn in at Lerwick Sheriff Court in Shetland.

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  • Indeed the inhabitants have sworn that Aesculapius, the god of medicine, has quit heaven and clothed his divine majesty with my appearance.

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  • It's a sworn oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done.

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  • As members of the General Committee they had sworn blind, unquestioning obedience on a sacred image, a dagger, and a pistol.

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  • Perjury A lawfully sworn witness in judicial proceedings deliberately giving false evidence.

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  • These members are all marked by the fact they have lost loved ones to Yason attack and sworn terrible vengeance.

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  • The university of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L.; and in the following year he was sworn of the privy council, and took a prominent part in the reception given to the duke of Wellington and the allied sovereigns.

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  • He had no sooner done so than he bitterly repented his weakness; and acting, as he himself says, on the principle that " to take an oath which never ought to have been taken is to estrange one's self from God, but to retract what one has wrongfully sworn to, is to return back to God," when he got safe again into France he attacked the transubstantiation theory more vehemently than ever.

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  • Meanwhile Athens had made overtures for peace (see the De falsa legatione of Demosthenes), and when Philip, in 346, again moved south, peace was sworn in Thessaly.

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  • Years afterwards, he pretended that he had only signed the "devise" as a witness, but in his apology to Queen Mary he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay stress on the extent to which he succeeded in shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of his brother-in-law, Sir John Cheke, and other friends, and on his intrigues to frustrate the queen to whom he had sworn allegiance.

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  • Soon after taking office in 1913 he aroused a storm of protest, especially on the part of the large daily newspapers, by declaring that he would enforce the law (requiring publications to print, among other things, a sworn statement of paid circulation), which had been held in abeyance by his predecessor until its constitutionality might be confirmed.

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  • The public buildings were placarded during the night with an intimation that four hundred knights had sworn not to leave Luther unavenged, and the ominous words Bundschuh, Bundschuh, Bundschuh (the watchword of peasant revolts) were written at the foot.

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  • In 1921, a dozen years before he would be sworn in as president, Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio.

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  • Chancery affidavit sworn by Sir John F. W. Herschel on 25 May 1854 in the case of Talbot v.

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  • Kate Rashid witnessed her brothers being killed one by one, and now she has sworn vengeance.

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  • His sworn enemy from Hong Kong moves in next door in Dorset.

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  • The inquest was conducted by means of sworn testimony.

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  • I 'm a translator, a sworn translator of English into Spanish.

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  • They have even been sworn in, so they can officially carry badges and guns.

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  • This incident of hugs and forgiveness between the sworn archenemies could all be just a bunch of hearsay as there were no cameras to record the momentous event for posterity.

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  • While lots of reality television fans have sworn that they would never watch a show featuring Suleman, it remains to be seen what kind of reaction the viewing public would have to such a program.

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  • However, even before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States in Washington D.C., his young daughters captured the attention of the world's leading fashion editors.

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  • Hearing of Kratos sworn vengeance, Athena asks for Kratos help stop and kill Aries, the God of War.

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  • Love-Him-or-Hate-Him - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate publication is sworn by and cursed at by many.

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  • It was a chilly day in Washington, D.C. when Barack Obama was sworn in and his wife's clothing choice was fitting.

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  • A Christian purity promise ring can be a powerful symbol of abstinence or other Christian values that the wearer has sworn to uphold.

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  • If you're curious about what people have documented, many websites offer photos, video and written accounts including sworn testimony of Bigfoot sightings.

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  • There's also the issue of Taiwan, which the U.S. has sworn to defend, and for which the Chinese government has a lean and hungry look.

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  • Droves of people have sworn by Dr. Atkins zero-carb-high-protein diet and many celebrities swear by The Zone.

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  • While fighting for survival, Michael struggles to adjust to the concept of immortal creatures living among humans, and Selene struggles with her own growing attraction to Michael-now a Lycan and her sworn enemy.

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  • The two become inseparable, sworn 'brothers,' and she falls deeply in love with him without ever revealing herself.

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  • How many times had she sworn she would never do that with anyone but her husband?

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  • Sworn assurances you or your people will not pursue our identity in any way and you'll do all in your power to protect our anonymity.

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  • She'd sworn off men-- especially this one-- a year ago!

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  • He'd sworn to Damian that he'd protect him.

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  • He'd sworn to protect her, even while pushing her away.

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  • He'd helped build the bridge between the two who were sworn together as mates after they barely learned each other's' names.

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  • This isn't a secret you're sworn to protect.

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  • He propped her up, and she sagged against him, unable to keep from crying at the thought of one sworn to protect humanity nearly killing her!

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  • Aren.t you sworn not to interfere with mortals?

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  • You.re sworn never to harm one who comes in good faith.

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  • You.re sworn not to, if I remember correctly, Erik said.

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  • I.m sworn to protect Toby, and I.ve done my duty in protecting Sasha, who is also my brother, according to the Code and the oaths I swore to my father and the Council!

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  • Kris had sworn to protect her if Rhyn un-mated her.

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  • Kiera could be the most stubborn and frustrating woman Evelyn had ever met, and she'd sworn off any man, let alone an alien.

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  • They were all designed for Fortune 500 executives, not poor­ly paid detectives sworn to keep the streets safe for orphans and widows.

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  • He even stooped to playing a Loretta Lynn CD, although if Fred had caught him he would have sworn it was in the wrong container.

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  • He had been there for her then, and later he had sworn to protect her always.

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  • Jenn hesitated, guilty she'd indulged herself to visit a place she shouldn't instead of protecting the world she was sworn to preserve.

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  • He was sworn to secrecy anyway.

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  • His friend was dying and instead of getting the support he needed from his family, he had been sworn to silence.

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  • If it hadn't been for the obvious humor in his eyes, she would have sworn he was serious.

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  • Perhaps Dad had sworn him to silence.

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  • Stronger than his curiosity was the knowledge that he wanted nothing to do with whatever Jonny was planning, no doubt against the White God, his sworn enemy.

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  • The sworn foe of strong government, he was compelled, in pursuance of Jefferson's policy, to put into execution the Embargo and other radical and stringent measures.

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  • Napoleon had from the first been aware of the secret alliance between Prussia and Russia, sworn by their respective sovereigns over the grave of Frederick the Great, and this knowledge had been his principal reason for precipitating hostilities with the former.

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