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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Oath"”.
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had …
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The Oath Keepers: Patriotism, Dissent, and the Edge of Violence
… group in the patriot/militia movement called the Oath Keepers. It explores how the group uses references to core political ideas and important political events from American history. It argues that these rhetorical strategies serve three purposes: (1) helping the group’s supporters to make sense …
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Immigrant to citizen : reciting the Canadian oath of citizenship in a multicultural society
The Canadian Oath of Citizenship has been a contentious topic in Canada over the past years, particularly in how the recitation of the Oath was perceived to be unconstitutional as it contains a portion where naturalized citizens pledge allegiance to the Queen. Although the courts have dismissed the …
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The Bradlaugh Case: A Study of the Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Affirmation-Oath Controversy, 1880-1891
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Ordens kraft : Politiska eder i Sverige 1520-1718
Political oaths were widespread in medieval times, but all over Europe their use dwindled in the early modern period, resulting in the institution being dismantled in many states. In previous research, this decay has been explained by pointing to the emergence of the state in this period, through …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… descriptions are given of divination and oath-taking rites. Translated transcripts of the different forms of the sua-oath form the empirical core of the thesis. The transcripts illustrate the way that Mambila experience and understand the meaning of sua. Descriptions are also given of the …
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Mambila traditional religion : Sua in Somie
… descriptions are given of divination and oath-taking rites. Translated transcripts of the different forms of the sua-oath form the empirical core of the thesis. The transcripts illustrate the way that Mambila experience and understand the meaning of sua. Descriptions are also given of the …
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Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidento rinkimų tvarka /
… The President of the Republic takes the oath to a very special subject whom sovereignty belongs to. He/she swears to the People of Lithuania. The oath has got a constitutional importance and causes juristically after-effects. In 2004 the Parliament of Lithuania voted in favour of …
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Eucharistic belief and practice in Ireland, 1660-1740
… included as part of the Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other oaths for all those who wished to enter public office. Just over a decade later, the Eucharist was again included in further penal legislation of 1704, when a sacramental test was appended to An act …
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The Social Contract: Duty and Discrimination in Public Service
… the U.S. government routinely violated its oath to its people at key points throughout the nation’s history, but this portfolio demonstrates how dedicated citizens strove to update and improve the social contract in order to produce the more perfect union promised in the nation’s …
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Organ Trade in India - The Grey Area
… the primal goals have followed the Hippocratic Oath of "Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always." (Adams 1891). The questions this perception of early medicine leaves us with are: Have we withdrawn from the compassion and ethics prescribed with the advent of advanced lab technology? What are …
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The Ancient Order of Hibernians in County Monaghan with particular reference to the parish of Aghabo
This thesis is an exploration of an oath-bound secret Catholic organisation, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, during a very important period in its existence from 1900 to 1933. The focus will be on County Monaghan with particular reference to my native parish of Aghabog. The period between 1900 and …
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A survey of the Boy Scout movement in its relation to the development of character
… inducting him into the troop, he takes the Scout Oath and repeats the Scout Law, he is made to feel that he is not merely on the threshold of things to do but of things to be. In the third place he finds that he shares with a group a code that is not so much his duty as his privilege to guard and …
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Policing as a Virtue; Moral Alignment and Legitimacy
… legitimacy to derive from the rule of law, their oath of allegiance to the Queen and from the constitutional significance of the ‘Office of Constable’. This perception was, to an extent, inconsistent with the wide body of literature concerning procedural justice and legitimacy. However, analysis …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… on wartime activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were distinct from national allegiances. Although the Confederate government …
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Namibian parliament's oversight role over the security sector: a case study of the parliamentary standing committees on foreign affairs, defence and security of both houses
… to appear before it to give evidence on oath (Standing Committee on Rules and Orders of National Assembly, 2010). The focus of this study was on the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of both houses whose roles are to oversee the affairs and …
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
… character of Gawain to observe the importance of oath taking and the bonds formed by knights from the practice of such. Chapter four focuses on the message of Athelston and argues that the work repositions the power of the crown beneath that of a regularized judicial system in which knights …
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The United States and Mexico, 1901-1912
… of the Republic of Mexico. Roosevelt took the oath of office on September 14th; Diaz celebrated his seventy-first birthday on the 15th. |At this time the relations of the United States and Mexico were most cordial. In commenting upon his inauguration the African Monthly Review of Reviews stated …
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Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexual Identity and School Controversy, New York State, 1986-1993
… curriculum guide, New York City's ""Abstinence Oath"" for AIDS educators, and the ""Sex Respect"" curriculum to critique school policy's definitions of sex and attendant definitions of identity. In the first section of the dissertation, I survey three broad philosophical conceptions of identity. …
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