6 sentences with 'oath'
Example sentences and phrases with the word oath and other words derived from it.
• « However, he explained under oath that his wife suffered from a mental disorder which caused her to behave irrationally; for example, she would buy things which she would then throw away for no reason. »
• « Teresa testified under oath that Ramey attempted to rape her and threatened to do to her "the same thing he had done to the Slate Creek girl," so the other man had to intervene. »
• « Beresford entered the city of Buenos Aires on the afternoon of 27 June and took the fort without fighting. He immediately got most of the officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the British monarch and succeeded in seizing the royal treasury in the city of Luján, so that the gold did not reach its destination. »
• « On 31 January 1813, the General Constituent Assembly began its sessions in Buenos Aires. The Assembly immediately declared itself sovereign and received the Triumvirate's oath of obedience. »
• « The governor also ordered the government to require all citizens appointed to public office to swear an oath of loyalty and adherence to the federal cause, a measure that was also extended to those finishing their university studies. »
• « To ferret out loyalists, the revolutionary governments also passed laws requiring the male population to take an oath of allegiance to the new states. Those who refused lost their property and were often imprisoned or forced to work for the new local revolutionary order. »