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Synonyms for oath

a profane or obscene term

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Synonyms for oath

profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law)

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a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior

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Summary: New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): Linguistic diversity of India was on full display in the Lok Sabha when members took oath as the 17th Lok Sabha commenced proceedings on Monday.
'Thus, it is the intention of the appointing authority that the appointment of the petitioner as well as the private Respondents would take effect from the date when they make their Oaths before the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court.'
This formula appears with both assertory and promissory oaths and is used mostly in juridical oaths and oath notations.
(1) Endnote: All available information about the oaths is available in a table that can be obtained from the author.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MPA-elect Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha administered the oath to the new members of the provincial assembly.
KARACHI / PESHAWAR / QUETTA -- The newly-elected members of provincial assemblies took the oath on Monday as the provincial assemblies of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Balochistan held their inaugural sessions for the new five-year term.
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Due to these discrepancies and trying to analyze the evolution of this concept expressed in medical oaths, the first goal of this work was to analyze if the prohibition of administering poisonous/ deadly drugs was kept and how it changed in medical oaths with Hippocratic influence of different time periods and within different religious orientations.
KARACHI -- Newly elected chairmen and vice chairmen of the local bodies in Karachi took oath of their offices in different ceremonies held, here on Tuesday.
After the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution, Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel took their oaths of office on Feb.
Since the power of many Roman emperors was based largely in their military might rather than their personal popularity, such oaths took on real significance.
A research project at the University of Nottingham between 2004 and 2007 collected nearly four thousand references to oaths and swearing in Greek texts of all kinds from the introduction of alphabetic writing until 322.
Drawing on Huntsman as a case, and his refusal to sign one pledge in particular, the Pro-Life Leadership Presidential Pledge (hereafter the PLPP), this essay considers the uniquely powerful rhetoric of oaths to construct relationships of inclusion and exclusion such that the contingencies of policy making are displaced by the demands of ideological membership.