Sentences with phrase «took an oath»

«Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer.

If MBA students insist on taking an oath that promotes shareholder - friendly corporate governance, I would propose the following: «I pledge to maximize the wealth of the people who pay my salary — i.e., the shareholders, unless the shareholders tell me in advance that they want me to do something else.

Donald J. Trump will take the oath of office to become the 45th President of the United States on Friday, January 20, 2017.

At a ceremony scheduled to begin at noon ET, Donald J. Trump on Friday will take the oath and become the 45th president of the United States of America.

All Statistics Canada employees take an oath of secrecy and face severe penalties for any breach of confidentiality.

Such is the case for Trump, who filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission establishing his eligibility to run for a second term in 2020 just hours after taking the oath of office.

Some invisible hand had comfortably arranged for Rubin to forego taking an oath prior to his testimony.

Simons takes the oath for a term that expires in September 2024.

From Obamacare to the Dream Act, Donald Trump has suggested throughout his campaign - and in his «Contract with the American Voter» - what he intends to do as soon as he takes the oath of office.

Ten years ago — ten years after his arrival in the New World — Elon Musk took the oath of American citizenship with thirty - five hundred other immigrants at the Pomona Fairplex, in a ceremony he calls «actually very moving.»

the same priests that take an oath under God to do good mispresent themselves again and again its morally not right» anybody under legal law to be molested in the name of religion is wrong dead wrong and the point is a pedaphile can never be cured sp whats the alternative (death that way innocence is not lost on bottom dweelers) i say feet first in a meat grinder in low gear i'm just saying

You have had hundreds of years to distance yourself from religious extremism, so now when your President puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of office you don't see anything wrong.

Our country is being so destroyed by the one leader who took the oath and sworned vow to save.

Beware the Mormon who smiles and will not answer — he has taken the oath of Blood Atonement — agreeing to sacrifice your life if secrets are revealed, okay to slit my throat if I am deemed a sinner by the church because that is the only way to save me.

Benedict reminded too many people of the past of German citizens and he had no business taking the oath.

I may as well not take the oath, because, since I don't believe in that god or any divine retribution for breaking an oath... I would be free to violate it from a religious perspective (but not an ethical one).

An atheist could never be president because that person by reason of the very definition would be unable to take the oath with the hand on the Bible.

After taking their oath of service, they were branded or marked with the letters SPQR, which was a Latin acronym showing that the soldier belonged to the «Senate and People of Rome.»

The 31 - year - old Democrat said she will take her oath of office on the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita in January.

Back in 1994 TV viewers all over the world watched transfixed, as South Africa's first democratically elected president took the oath of office.

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

Can you imagine the backlash if this article would have been how a Catholic President would take orders from the Pope and have statues of saints all around the White House (shades of 1960) or a Jewish President who would take the oath on a torah while wearing a yurmulke.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) made the announcement on Thursday that Obama will take the oath of office on the Robinson family Bible on Sunday and on the Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr..

I should add that the word translated «stones» in the KJV is often literally translated as «thigh,» but that is merely a well known Hebrew euphemism for «penis,» per the oath - taking examples I mentioned from the Bible, «put your hand under my thigh and take an oath.»

How about when they take an oath in the Old Testament by having someone place their hand «under the thigh» of another man?

This judge clearly had enough evidence to convict the perpetrator if he had only done the job he took an oath to do.

i'm curious what will you think of your god when obama takes the oath of office AGAIN?

I was burdened from the Lord to take an oath not to work for anyone but him.

Hippolytos wrote in c. 200: «A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath.

The faith of Rick Santorum will help him in the election and there is a very real possibility that come January 2013 President Rick Santorum will be taking the oath of office.

Yes bring Ratzinger before a court make him take an oath and see what comes out, happened in Australia where the Archbishop had to tell the truth under oath about destruction of docu.ments and the hiding of criminals.

It is implied in the petition (Mt 6:9; Lk 11:2), «Hallowed be thy name,» and in the passage (Mt 5:34 - 36; 23:16 - 22) about things by which one must not take oath.

Next the contrast, «You have heard... but I say to you,» is applied to taking oaths to confirm statements or promises (Mt 5:33 - 37).

13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.

And when the President put his hand on the Holy Bible at his Inauguration and took the Oath to serve, defend and protect the United States to the best of his ability, he meant it as he has done so not only in words but also by deeds.

Afterward, Zeiders called on his flock to take an oath to «guard and protect» children, reminding them they were the stewards of their safety.

Let's take a look why: Theodore Roosevelt did not take the oath of office on a Bible in 1901.

Beside as mentioned how the courts accept non religious to swear taking oath by the bible when they are not believers?

Many of them took the oath of allegiance reluctantly, and Ali himself did not give his approval until six months later.

Toward the end of the following year, the second before the Hijrah, five of those men from Medina with seven new converts visited the Prophet and took an oath to abstain from any polytheistic cult, from all vices, and to observe strict discipline.

The unilateral agreement is a relationship between two persons but its fulfillment depends upon the words of one person, as in a divorce, confession, and taking an oath.

Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.

You can take an oath instead.

Perhaps it was among the day's subtle references to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took his oath on 1 Cor.

Last month, more than 500 Muslim students from around the country took an oath to call Christians Masihi (People of the Messiah), which Pakistani Christians say has a more positive connotation.

And that's what I did: I took an oath of office and I have taken anoath of office in this job and will uphold the law.»

Margaret Roper's husband William took the oath but later wrote a famous Life of his father - in - law which sanitises his own position.

«I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet Micah: «He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.»»

In 574, at the age of thirty - four, taking the oath of poverty and celibacy, he became a monk according to the pattern of St. Benedict.

The story goes that Washington was all set for his inauguration when it was decided he should take the oath on a Bible.