11.   A compromise was reached when the oath was sworn before the council rather than the high court, but Arafat never got his way on that issue.

12.   He swore an oath.

13.   Last month, Musharraf demanded that all higher court judges either resign or swear an oath of loyalty to the military government.

14.   New argues that the order to serve under U.N. command is illegal because he has sworn his oath of allegiance to the United States, not the United Nations.

15.   She became a German Red Cross nurse, swearing an oath to Hitler, and had a daughter before her husband was captured by the Soviet army.

16.   Then he swore an oath invoking Jesus Christ, Andrew Jackson or both, according to various historians.

17.   After swearing the oath with the assistance of an interpreter, Zan left the courtroom.

18.   But Adams vows that the party will never swear an oath of allegiance to the queen.

19.   He was also criticized for crossing his fingers while swearing the oath of allegiance to the queen earlier this week.

20.   In a related decision, the Constitutional Court ruled against reformist lawmakers who demanded that communist and other opposition lawmakers be required to swear an oath on the constitution.