oath-bound

The broad masses of the Tibetan people have reposed great faith in me and I, likewise, have a karmic prayer and oath-bound duty to them.

27 March 2006 2010

In the silent winter air tens of thousands of spellbound eyes watched a trembling Vema meet Warren's kiss to seal a wedding unlike any they were likely to ever see again: the marriage of a sorceress and a wizard, bound by more than any mere oath-bound also by a covenant of magic.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

The broad masses of the Tibetan people have reposed great faith in me and I, likewise, have a karmic prayer and oath-bound duty to them.

27 March 2006 2010

The broad masses of the Tibetan people have reposed great faith in me and I, likewise, have a karmic prayer and oath-bound duty to them.

27 March 2006 2010

The broad masses of the Tibetan people have reposed great faith in me and I, likewise, have a karmic prayer and oath-bound duty to them.

27 March 2006 2010

Except that where and to whom a president speaks tells us a lot about how he views his relationship to the people he is oath-bound to serve.

Gary Hart: A President of All the People 2008

One justification for this approach is that the President and members of Congress are also oath-bound to support and uphold the Constitution, and both are ultimately accountable to the people if they should stray to far in their constitutional constructions.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism vs. Judicial Restraint: 2007

The Skull and Bones Society, unto which Mr. Bush is oath-bound and morally beholden, derives its constitution from that of the 1930s-era German Thule Society.

Think Progress » Let’s Get it Started 2005

The Cabal had taken him in, trained him, housed him, and fed him, however, so he did his oath-bound duty and put on a show for the passersby.

Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

Now I ask you, when a religion has to make its own priests punch a clock, when it so much as admits that its own oath-bound holy fathers have been sneaking off the job early, coming in late and playing hooky, wouldn't you say that that religion has a soft white underbelly?

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971