11.   The conservative Republicans who raced through the Contract with America to fulfill their vow of changing the country are turning their attention to changing Washington.

12.   The Ethiopians, who held fast to Jewish traditions through centuries of oppression, could not have been more eager to fulfill the vow to return to Zion.

13.   Fulfilling vow, George Bush skydives.

14.   He had long promised hand power over to the army but never fulfilled his vow.

15.   Most people carrying kavadi had several parts of their bodies pierced, considered an act of faith to seek atonement, give thanks and fulfill their vows.

16.   She never returned to Germany, fulfilling a vow.

17.   The mother of two divorced her husband to fulfill a vow of celibacy before joining the clergy.

18.   Ahead of the face-to-face encounter, the Middle East antagonists fulfilled angry vows to exact revenge on one another, leaving at least a dozen dead.