How To Use Sworn In A Sentence
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Frankly, my only concern was that the resident copperhead (don't ask; I've been sworn to secrecy) got out alive.
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She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible.
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There's something compelling, even mythic, about a boy reaching out from beyond the grave to save the children of his family's sworn enemy.
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Students began their day by being sworn in or "deputized" as special agents.
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Nick is also a professional safecracker who lives by a sworn motto: never steal from where you live.
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Any normal, mediocre woman would have (a) sworn, (b) looked under the bed again, or ( c ) shouted at me.
THE DICE MAN
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One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
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Though he is sworn to secrecy, Larry, stricken with guilt over offending a friend, spills the beans.
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The chief witness was allowed to leave the town only after lodging a sworn statement with the police.
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So police officers are being compromised by being pressurised to lie and then being pressurised to drive in a way that could result in death or bodily injury to themselves or to innocent members of public who you have sworn to protect all so that someone snotty superintendent can get a bung from the Home Office
Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Bank of America and other mortgage companies have been under pressure to review their paperwork after employees and contractors said in sworn depositions that, because of the enormous volume, they hadn't had the time to read the documents, much less check them for accuracy.
Paperwork storm hits nation's biggest bank
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They are murderers, and more importantly, they are sworn enemies of democracy and the rule of law.
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I could have sworn I heard a piper playing a lament.
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Why am I so driven to protect her, she who by definition should be my sworn enemy?
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Several times, Niane could have sworn she saw a person at the end of a passage, but she accredited it to the poor lighting.
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The government has sworn to do everything in its power to combat terrorism.
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I could have sworn she said she was a patient of Dr Kaplan's.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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To say that they should abstain from endeavoring to affect administration in a beneficial manner, is to say not only that they should de-citizenize themselves, but that they should violate their pledges and abandon their sworn duty.
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886
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Leimer will not continue to fly long - haul away the sworn enemy of Stuttgart.
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The mention of critics can only bring us to the topic of Nunn's sworn enemy.
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Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
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unsworn testimony
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But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my
The Decameron
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He remembers the oath of allegiance he has sworn.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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That was said in the face of a statutory prohibition on commenting on the fact that the accused did not give sworn evidence.
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Although he had lost his bid for re-election, Parker legally remained in office until the incoming administration was sworn in.
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Don't we have the right, even duty, to be outraged if they betray our trust and their own sworn oaths?
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I could have sworn that she was wearing an art schmock.
YesButNoButYes: (American) Idol Thoughts - 5/9/07
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The new governor will be sworn in next week.
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She was bursting to announce the news but was sworn to secrecy.
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As, by the public resolutions, and foresaid unbounded toleration, the bounds fixed by JEHOVAH, and homologated and sworn to, in our national attainments and constitution, were greatly altered, so the parliament of
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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They looked on each other as sworn enemies, and there was kept up a continual system of plotting and counterplotting.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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They were all around us, and when shooting stars fell, you could have sworn that they were going to fall towards you and fall into your hair.
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I checked the odometer . He was right. Four miles exactly. I could have sworn it was 20.
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Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court.
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This fetishistic oath, seemingly sworn and signed in blood, has kept the Republicans from saying "yes" to President Obama's offer for raising the nation's debt ceiling -- a deal that would whack some $4 trillion dollars from the national deficit.
Fernando Espuelas: Why Republicans Can't Say Yes to Obama
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“Weel, then, ye maun ken we’re starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, — and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.
Old Mortality
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The determined Savior has also forsworn His favorite high-calorie, high-carb foods such as fatted calf, loaves, and even His own body and blood, instead embracing muscle-building high-protein shakes and electrolyte-replacing sports drinks.
Satire: Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming
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Likewise, a sworn statement with the mining concession applicant's advanced commitment shall be submitted.
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He had sworn not to bad-mouth Liv, though he held her at fault for the breakup of their marriage.
SUDDENLY
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You didn't lie about it in sworn testimony, which still puts you a notch above Clinton, but you need to go.
More GOP leaders demand Sanford's resignation
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The next witness was sworn in.
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Bryson looked down and when he finally spoke, I could have sworn that I heard his voice crack.
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In London he read two books by Swedenborg, even though he had foresworn reading, and in one of these books he found that what had occurred to him that afternoon was called a vastation, and nothing he ever heard again convinced him that it was not so.
The Master
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Family doctor and friend, Good Old George has forsworn his practice due to retirement, is a widower and now lives in bucolic bliss in the country.
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When Shinoda was sworn in as the Yamaguchi-gumi's sixth don in July 2005, he vowed to expand the 95-year-old organisation's influence beyond its traditional Kobe base.
Yakuza chief arrested in Japan
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A new civilian government would be sworn in on Aug. 27, 1993.
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Sally could have sworn that Michael jumped four feet into the air.
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MY DEAR FRIEND: Of all the various ingredients that compose the useful and necessary art of pleasing, no one is so effectual and engaging as that gentleness, that 'douceur' of countenance and manner, to which you are no stranger, though (God knows why) a sworn enemy.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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The allegations against them were made in sworn evidence to the inquiry.
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The new jury were sworn in.
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The allegations against them were made in sworn evidence to the inquiry.
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The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving.
Townsend Chapter 6
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Did this accused make an unsworn statement to the jury?
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He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Already, investigators have obtained in sworn testimony detailed descriptions of what took place inside the foreclosure companies.
Wonkbook: Election tops $2 billion; divided gov. does not mean deficit reduction; market believes in inflation
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When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
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Lobo, 61, a veteran congressman from the conservative National party who is known by the nickname Pepe, hinted that criminal charges against Zelaya would be dropped and appealed to foreign governments to recognise his mandate once he was sworn in on 27 January.
The Guardian World News
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I have no desire to be forsworn, not on that oath.
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So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed.
Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
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Because of what he calls the corrupting influence of large corporations on America's elections, Segal has sworn off any corporate contributions in his primary campaign against two well-established Democratic opponents: Cicilline and former state Democratic Party Chairman
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The act obliges people making personal injury claims to make a sworn affidavit of their claim.
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Those statements were made in an interview in November and a detailed sworn affidavit he had given in January.
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Moreover, in all these cases the warrants had been issued on the sworn complaints of the parties damnified or of their parents and guardians: no one had complained of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Do you believe these two intimate friends used to be mutual sworn enemies?
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Now, all of these goodies probably don't mean much to a man with a net worth of $50 million, but as far as we know, he hasn't forsworn any of these perks, nor has he offered to pay for them himself.
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Yesterday controversial councillor donned his robes of office and was sworn in as Hull's Lord Mayor.
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It is the kind of thing you're sworn to secrecy over.
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The judge asked the witness to be brought back again and give a sworn statement again.
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This approach to literary study, which is probably shared by a large number of literature professors, has implicitly concluded that literature is not really capable even of helping students "learn something about themselves or the world along the way" and has essentially foresworn the study of literature altogether for the kinds of objects Dr. Crazy mentions.
Literary Study
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Serbia they were obliged to stand and watch the janissaries come back to the pashalik of Belgrade, though the Turks had sworn this should not be.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
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Trained up for the purpose and in pairs sworn to die together, only members of the leading classes would do battle, after trading insults and accompanied by musical instruments playing.
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And thus inviolable is the covenant of grace: I have sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, as I have been, and rebuke thee, as I have done.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Let's forget he had sworn allegiance to Queen Victoria en-route to Oz and fought an odd battle or two for the Poms on the way.
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Her husband, in turn, forfeits any paternity claims over children born subsequent to their sworn oaths.
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Officially, all right-thinking people have forsworn racism, now believed to fester principally among the no-hopers on rough estates.
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A misplaced cut or a missing suture are accidents, but one billing specialist per hospital bed is not and is, or should be, foresworn.
Stephen Herrington: 'Cadillac Tax' Debate Shows We Don't Understand the Problem
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The new Cabinet was sworn in directly after the conclusion of the vote.
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There was no reference to this meeting in any of the developer's sworn statements to the tribunal.
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Twelve freeholders were chosen, who, having sworn, together with the hundreder, or presiding magistrate of that division, to administer impartial justice, [**] proceeded to the examination of that cause which was submitted to their jurisdiction.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
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All the governor's men know, and though they have sworn to keep their silence, I do doubt their loyalty when they are in the inns and bathhouses.
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He remembers the oath of allegiance he has sworn.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Neither side has asserted that the sworn evidence is inherently improbable.
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Here he took a small golden reliquary, which was suspended from his neck next to his shirt by a chain of the same metal, and having kissed it devoutly, continued — “Never was false oath sworn on this most sacred relique, but it was avenged within the year.”
Quentin Durward
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Seems like everybody I know's sworn off meat or drink or both.
FOLLY
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Come to think of it, unless my memory has completely glazed over with the overwhelming sense of amazement, I could have sworn I missed a few bites that were of the unmissable type!
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Both GMAC and Chase have employed reported robo-signers, who have admitted in sworn depositions to signing as many as 10,000 documents each month without properly reviewing and notarizing them.
Foreclosure? Not So Fast
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What if a poor fat squinny rogue, a low-born fellow even as I am, whom you had baffled and made a laughing-stock, had come to me in my loneliness and sworn before God that if you honorable gentlemen would not keep your words, he the clown would?
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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Is the Walker article really about hypothetical regulations that Obama hasn't "forsworn"?
Libertarian Blog Place
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Berowne says that he has no problem subscribing to a decree that can be forsworn on mere necessity, and he signs the document.
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Firstly, he has forsworn the easy Saturday Night Fever route of replicating the original's songs in the stage version.
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That contradicted her sworn deposition, in which she said board members hadn't named what alternatives should be presented to balance evolutionary theory.
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The Attorney General provided sworn affidavits from pharmacy directors and purchasers at hospitals in Harris, Dallas and Grayson counties.
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Around my area, 50,000 men follow freemasonry and each has sworn to give his utmost allegiance to the Craft. 4.
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I daresay that the little ragged Slav children of Kievo whom she saw clustering round the kindly Italian officer were glad enough to eat his chocolates, [57] but I think that we others should pay more attention to those secret societies, the _četasis_ (which is Slav for komitadjis), who have sworn to liberate all Istria from the Italians.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
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The country on Thursday celebrated Citizenship Day and to mark the occasion 4, 000 people were sworn in as new Australians.
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Hunston wrote to the Law Society last November complaining that Doran had sworn in an affidavit that he witnessed Hunston signing the document.
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Government has forsworn prices and incomes policies and cut back subsidies for industry.
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My mother and stepmother are sworn enemies owing to my mother's treatment of my stepsister when we were small.
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There's a fabulous moment when live coverage of his first miracle is abruptly halted - because it's the BBC and he's sworn before the watershed.
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They must provide hospitality to anyone who asks even if he be a sworn enemy.
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At a court hearing on Dec. 15 at Fort Campbell, Ky., Miller submitted an unsworn statement in which he said he fired after Mohammed tried to grab his 9 mm pistol.
Md. soldier faces court-martial for death of Afghan civilian
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And truly, the lack of coverage by the world's most powerful media outlets and the fact that all guests are sworn to secrecy gives the whole conference a preternatural aura.
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For besides the persecuting of the foresaid Thomas archbishop of Canturburie, he would not suffer the legats sent from the pope, to enter within the bounds of his dominion, till they had sworne that they should doo nothing preiudiciall to the customes of his kingdome, neither by prescribing orders, nor any other maner of act or meanes.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism.
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This will contain sworn affidavits from a number of the country's largest cement wholesalers claiming that a small group of cement groups monopolises the Mexican market.
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In addition, two other new JPs who live in the borough were sworn in to serve in neighbouring courts.
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The Former Directors have offered to answer written interrogatories from the Insurer and to have such answers included in sworn affidavits.
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We have sworn to fight cruelty wherever we find it.
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Judging by their sworn statements, Smith will always get the benefit of the doubt before a jury of his peers.
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Her fists clench, and he could have sworn that her eyes were blazing with fire, the lambent glow bathing him in an evil red light.
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Ben's mother Helen is a talented classical pianist and she has forsworn a musical career for her marriage to Edward.
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I have sworn an oath to defend her.
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An ultimate Washington insider to the sword hilt, he was the catalyst for the Plame Affair, which for my money (follow the money!) was the most fascinating real-life crime mystery ever, with all the classic elements: spies, traitors, journalists sworn to protect their scumbag sources, smoking guns, powerful people up to and including the president of the United States, a sexy blond lady as the victim.
Robert D. Novak Is in the Book
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The solicitor in question has also sworn an affidavit on 21 September 2004.
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Flynn and councilwomen Amy Spurgeon and Wendy Lassetter, who were sworn in last month after being appointed by Gov.
The Times-Journal: News
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Moreover I have sworn an oath not to tread their soil nor transgress against them in aught; so how shall this man come at the daughter of the Great King, and who hath power to bring him to her or help him in this matter?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The oath sworn by new citizens remains the source of some bitterness among traditionalists north of the Border, who claim it ignores Scotland's unique history.
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Daughtry have sworn that he had seen a flash of anxiety break through the dream-films that bleared the Ancient Mariner's eyes.
CHAPTER IX
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A number of employees of mortgage servicers who signed documents indicating that they had reviewed the accuracy of thousands of foreclosure proceedings have testified in sworn depositions that they didn't actually perform at least some of the reviews.
Do you have foreclosure documents or depositions related to 'robo-signers'?
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The Danes have left Wessex, and have set up in Lundenwic, and have sworn on their most sacred talismans to leave us.
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I would have sworn Horatio wouldn't have known a hollyhock from a nettle.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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It wasn't long before brother and sister were sworn enemies.
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The caitiff Walter -- mansworn that he is -- he shall abye it; but that can scarce be as yet, and methinks it were not well that I entered Scotland with you and your sister at my side, for then must I seem to have overlooked an offence that, by this holy relic, I will never pardon.
The Caged Lion
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It was then that Betty could have sworn she smelled a hint of perfume in the air and it didn't belong to her.
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For decades, it has foresworn discretionary monetary policy altogether, relying on a simple dollar-linked currency board.
Moving Toward 21st Century Capitalism
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The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.
David Copperfield
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For two hundred and fifty thousand I will own the stamp, protect my investment, and purchase this man's sworn secrecy.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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Do you believe these two intimate friends used to be mutual sworn enemies?
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Certes, we can say none otherwise than that the king's magnificence was a virtue, whilst that of the churchman was a miracle, inasmuch as the clergy are all exceeding niggardly, nay, far more so than women, and sworn enemies of all manner of liberality; and albeit all men naturally hunger after vengeance for affronts received, we see churchmen, for all they preach patience and especially commend the remission of offences, pursue it more eagerly than other folk.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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AstraZeneca has foresworn large acquisitions and diversification, and is relying on new drug development.
AstraZeneca Still Falling Behind Rivals
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He has sworn there is only $1,000 of other debt out there apart from other sundry creditors, so for them to raise really, with respect, captious points about fairness and the like is interesting.
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The next witness was sworn in.
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sworn enemies
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I have a great deal of power over them, but, like one of those comic-book heroines, I am sworn to use it only for good.
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I didn't say anything, as I am sworn to both of their confidences.
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As king, Idomeneus is forsworn and must lose his royalty.
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A newspaper with a sworn circulation of half a million published an original and spontaneous poem by Helen Della Delmar, in which she gibed and sneered at Brissenden.
Chapter 41
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Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses.
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What we have this moment vowed, is not to be forsworn.
The Scottish Chiefs
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
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Joe Biden was sworn into the Senate in 1973 (25 years ago) If she is 44 years old today 25 years ago she would have been 19 years old. mizkay aka spackle camshaft (22: 06: 47):
WordPress.com News
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She was sworn in as head of an interim government in March.
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Notice that they conveniently neglect to mention that Rove's statements were unsworn.
Siegelman Prosecutors Lash Out at Whistleblowers
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_ If it be yet objected, that the members of parliament have, at one time or other, sworn to preserve the laws; and therefore to swear to endeavour the extirpation of prelacy, which is established by law, is to contradict their own oath and run the hazard of perjury: it is easy for any one to observe and answer.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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What did you have in mind when you wrote that sentence in sworn evidence in Australia?
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The tribunals allow 'witnesses' to give evidence against prisoners in unsworn statements instead of testimony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of a truth, she had sworn never to actually speak again, but now it occurred to her that perhaps she might at least intonate.
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
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That induction into what my mother later called ‘a secret society’ soon introduced me to quite a number of Stoics, already sworn-in members.
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On a fifth day, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bare to trouble the forsworn.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Also, I recently learned a great little life hack to get good tickets at the National, but I'm sworn to secrecy.
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The constant rotation of junior personnel through the ranks makes this unlikely, as does the oath of office sworn to by every soldier and officer.
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Whores would rip one another apart, yet defend a sworn enemy to the police; would show a young 'greenie' the ropes, then try and muscle in on her punter.
Dangerous Lady
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They used to be friends but they are now sworn enemies .
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While it's an odd sight, a federal judge dabbling in politics to excise politics from the judicial sphere, there is a serious question here: When may a judge, sworn to "faithfully and impartially" apply law, politick to change it?
Sandra Day O'Connor v. the People
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Another is a mine-awareness campaign that has so far trained 280 teachers to help children avoid mines planted by Gadhafi's forces the revolutionary government has forsworn the use of mines.
Back to School in Liberated Libya
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When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
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Are people like the applicant sworn in as police constables?
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Sir Marmaduke had arisen with a snort from a short slumber, and had just sworn that he and everybody else should go to bed, when there came a ring at the front-door bell.
He Knew He Was Right
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I've read the transcript of the press conference, and Obama didn't make a single reference to British Petroleum -- a name which, in any event, is commonly used by many people of a certain age (including me) who are sworn enemies of anticolonialism.
The Weekly Standard (sort of) defends Obama
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While the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, might be God's sworn defender, he wasn't above using the swords of heretics to swell his army and terrify his enemies.
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He's going to be sworn in as Mayor next week.
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It is said that the last parliament was held on this tor in 1749, but for some time before that date the court merely met on the tor, and, after the jurors had been sworn in, adjourned to one of the stannary towns.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Tessa had read of them in the Codex: Subjugates, or darklings, were mundanes who had sworn themselves to the service of a vampire.
Clockwork Angel
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He's sworn to keep his vigil for ‘as long as it takes’.
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Consider just a few Obama administration "lowlights" from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's scheme to sell the President's former Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Libertarian Blog Place
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Martin was sworn into office as prime minister in March.
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So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábà Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed.
Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
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BTW, The microphone the Thug Party has these days blares loudly, constantly and viciously about their sworn enemies and making nicey-nicey with them.
Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?
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Lord Kazador has sworn vengeance and awaits the day when he can crush the Orc chieftain.
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No, actually it is that little statement used in some cases by notaries that says “the statement was sworn before me on some date in someplace” but I there should be a word for bias potential in jury selection to make it sound more scientific and I propose the jurat.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jurat
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I have sworn off cigarettes altogether
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She was sworn in, along with eleven other jurors.
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Almost everyone is forsworn at some point, and high-handed rhetoric is continually enlisted to justify it.
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I wish I could tell you more but I am sworn to secrecy.
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The parents retort by praise of the young fisherman, compliments pass quickly into business, and a vow of eternal friendship between the families is sworn over a bottle of rosolio.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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Had it not been for the cover of this book, John would have sworn it had been scribed only a few years before.
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Rodriguez, 49, was sworn in hurriedly in Sucre, without the presidential sash and regalia, before a session meeting of legislators as protesters clashed with police outside.
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She did not have the funds to take him to court and she saw no benefit in going to court after she got his sworn information.
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Somehow they blamed each other, deciding their sworn enemy was the sole reason for their anger.
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And then something happened, the atonalities came together, and Claude could have sworn he was hearing a rainstorm.
METAPLANETARY
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She is sworn to secrecy about which major character dies.
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Weel, then, ye maun ken we're starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, -- and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.
Old Mortality, Complete
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Facing the national flag, the students in uniform T shirts carrying the words of" Non- remunerated Blood Donation Volunteers" sworn in unison to bid farewell to their puerility and usher in maturity .
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JC: I could have sworn I must have fielded this a thousand times: because I could not find a worthy opponent in this over-palliated world!
Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
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Is it not lucky for swains like you that the soldiers have quite forsworn sonneting?
Letters on Literature
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It somehow seems hardly surprising that Ms Player is now his sworn enemy.
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The elves had long ago sworn protection of the royal house for future safety of its destined hero.
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It was a beautiful ritual that allowed me to publicly affirm the vows that I had sworn so many years before.
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The appeal, however, was allowed upon another ground which the Court does not need to trouble itself with, that is, that the judge misdirected the jury upon the appellant's unsworn statement.
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Ms. Bauer earns an annual income of approximately $77, 902 according to her financial statement sworn a week before trial.
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But to the Puritans who had forsworn themselves to being in league with Satan, this false self-testimony meant eternal damnation.
Kathleen Kent - An interview with author
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I could've sworn that I saw tumbleweed blowing across the newly waxed marble floor.
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She was sworn to look after me, an honourbond, but she also had to find you.
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As with nearly every cartoon with a dog or a cat in it, there has to be a representative of their sworn enemies.
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He blushed so hard that he could have sworn his face looked like a tomato. ‘Please say yes,’ He thought eagerly.
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Fine dug in, saying there wasn't a shard of evidence; I said I had the transcript of Bell's sworn testimony right in front of me, and that while he could lie to the unbriefed audience, he couldn't lie to me.
Ezra Levant: May 2008 Archives
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By day it hides in the darkest treetops, seeking refuge from the fish eagles that are its sworn enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of crew members, technicians and film laboratory workers were sworn to secrecy.
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He went on strike, as they do in this country, and just before the final collapse we had those extraordinary strikes known as the shearer strikes in the interior and the marine strike along the coast; until the business men, the wholesale men, were sworn in as constables and marched day and night with baton and revolver in order to keep life and property secure.
Australia: Political and General Conditions
