Sentences with phrase «violate the oath»

George W. Bush has, of course, flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him «to protect and defend the constitution,» and the opposition party has been remarkably reluctant to hold him to account.

«The tipping point of my decision to resign was the realization that countless officers here and throughout the military are guilty of blatantly violating the oaths they swore to defend the Constitution,» wrote Page, 24, in The Huffington Post.

WHILE I CONTINUE to keep this Oath unviolated may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art and science of medicine with the blessing of the Almighty and respected by my peers and society, but should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.

If a doctor violates the oath to care for patients and purposely harms sick people — or a police officer violates an oath to serve and protect and purposely harms innocent citizens — or a priest violates all religious vows and purposely harms children, then society rightfully finds the behavior very shocking and condemns it.

Did Paladino violate his oath of office?

«I think that the president should have been impeached because he is violating the fundamental principles of good governance and he is violating the oath that he has sworn that he will protect and own a certain allegiance to this country but as we speak now, we have seen that the president is owing double allegiance, that he is not ready to protect all of us.»

Those who hold public office must safeguard that trust, and those who violate their oath must incur just punishment.

At a rally where he appeared with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Cuomo mixed his stump - speech standbys with sharper language, accusing the six NY GOP representatives of «violating their oath of office to represent the interest of the people of the State of New York.»

He has said it «violates your oath of office» to be «hyper - political,» and has happily allied with Republicans to cut income taxes, raise the minimum wage and legalize same - sex marriage.

«We say to these congresspeople: We promise you, if you violate your oath of office and you defraud the voters, you hurt the people of this state, we will remove you from office on Nov. 2, 2018,» Cuomo said.

«We will continue relentlessly to bring to justice those public officials who violate their oaths by engaging in this especially offensive misconduct.»

So, politically, if they do that, I think it violates their oath.

After a Republican - appointed Board of Elections PR aide admitted to the state inspector general that he had given Lovett the document, the mayor refused Cuomo's demand that he apologize for falsely accusing Sugarman of violating her oath of office.

He mixed his stump - speech standbys with sharper language, accusing the representatives of «violating their oath of office to represent the interest of the people of the State of New York.»

«To become hypoerpolitical I think violates your oath of office,» Cuomo said.

They can not violate their oath by now picking and choosing the laws they will honor, and expect to remain in office while violating their oath.

An officer who violates the oath of office set out in the schedules in this constitution or in violation to this constitution shall be removed from office.

When two state lawmakers suggested in a letter that Donovan follow Thompson's policy, he said he understood the reasoning behind the change but that doing so would violate his oath of office.

«To become hyper - political, I think, violates your oath of office.

We will continue relentlessly to bring to justice those public officials who violate their oaths by engaging in this especially offensive.»

«For any New York representative to vote for this bill that they know is targeted at New York violates their oath.

ALBANY — Charging that Rep. John Faso and other House Republicans from New York have violated their oaths of office and defrauded voters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a fiery promise on Tuesday to work at seeing them ejected from office in next year's midterm elections.

Cuomo charged the pair «with violating their oath of office to represent the interest of the people of the state of New York,» and pointed to their amendment to the House GOP's recent Obamacare «repeal and replace» plan that would require that New York State pick up the county share of Medicaid.

Cuomo accused them of violating their oaths of office by putting party politics ahead of their constituents.

«I think we proved our case overwhelmingly that Carl Paladino violated his oath of office,» Miller said.

Former senate majority leader Dean Skelos violated his oath of office in an attempt to enrich his son by «strong - arming» companies that relied on the Long Island Republican's support in Albany, a federal prosecutor said during closing remarks in the senator's corruption trial on Tuesday afternoon.

The petition from several school board members to remove Paladino is not about the racist comments, but instead accuses him of knowingly violating his oath of office because he leaked to the media details of teacher contract negotiations, information that was discussed in a closed - door executive session of the board.

«Today I charge Congressman Faso and Collins and their colleagues for violating their oath of office to represent the interest of the people of the State of New York.

«These alleged criminal acts are serious and display a pattern of disregard for the law, compounded by the defendant's violating his oath as an attorney,» District Attorney Thomas Spota said in a statement Wednesday evening.

After all, they were asking him to commit nothing short of treason, to violate oaths he had freely and willingly given.

Clean Air Act which will increase pollution) 13) timing press releases so bad news will miss the news cycle on long weekends, especially when they plan on not enforcing environmental laws 14) press not reporting on the outrageous use of signing statements (president basically saying he intends to violate his oath of office) 15) press rarely reporting on anti-war demonstrations 16) Whitehouse use of Fox News (sic) and right - wing demagogue radio to get its message out 17) right - wing attempt to take over NPR and PBS.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.

Answer: Doing so will probably get you kicked off of the jury, plus at least a lecture from the judge about violating your oath as a juror, a $ 250.00 fine, and a court order to go home and write a five - page essay on the importance of the Sixth Amendment.

«District Attorney Higgins traded his power and law enforcement authority for sexual favors and violated his oath to the people of Bedford County,» he said.

I don't, but I don't think that those who do should be, for example, disbarred for violating their oath.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

Not exact matches

«First, assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath,» he said.

This congress and Administration have violated that definition and Oath to protect the liberties and freedoms of the American people.

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).

Any doctor, in any position, who puts dollars above patient welfare, violates his / her oath, for by either action or inaction, they are causing harm to their patients.

NO - does it violate the hypocratic oath doctors and nurses have to take if they allow a mother to suffer to attempt to save the unborn child?

It no more violates the establishment clause than the fact of the president's taking his oath of office on the Holy Bible (Abraham Lincoln's King James Version, in Obama's case), or the president's concluding his oath with the words «so help me God.»

Given the rates of infidelity, people who get married should have to swear a blood oath that if it's violated, as traumatic as that would be, the greater good is the relationship.

Mr Dastyari denied ever violating his «parliamentary oath».

``... For violating your sacred oath and for using your position as the top law enforcement officer of this county.

The Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision, ruled that the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, violated the constitution by not always swearing the presidential oath in the absence of the President and his vice.

Weiner, who choked up at times during a news conference he called Monday to take responsibility for the picture, said he was not resigning because he does not believe he violated his congressional oath or any laws.

Coffey suggested Howe violated his cooperation agreement by lying under oath on the application.

Mr. Bellone said Mr. Spota refused to cooperate with federal law enforcement officials on the Gilgo Beach murders, unnecessarily prosecuted former Suffolk Det. John Oliva, lied about former police chief James Burke to conceal his past and violated his sacred oath as the top law enforcement official by letting criminals go and leaving some cases unresolved.

President Obama, in just moving on, IS violating his own Oath of Office as are those in Congress who are NOT upholding these Laws — both ours and internationally!