But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Mrs. Freight ( Knight Dream-Miss Reed ) shows promise and does it in good form, and her best time is about 2:35.

" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly the convention parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – " I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."

A connection between Bragi and the bragarfull ' promise cup ' is sometimes suggested, as bragafull, an alternate form of the word, might be translated as ' Bragi's cup '.

When a country has its own national currency, this involves the issue of some form of standardized currency, which is essentially a form of promissory note: a promise to exchange the note for " money " under certain circumstances.

Cleary suggests that déjà vu may be a form of familiarity-based recognition ( recognition that is based on a feeling of familiarity with a situation ) and that laboratory methods of probing familiarity-based recognition hold promise for probing déjà vu in laboratory settings.

The transaction involves the insured assuming a guaranteed and known relatively small loss in the form of payment to the insurer in exchange for the insurer's promise to compensate ( indemnify ) the insured in the case of a financial ( personal ) loss.

Many American casinos offer free memberships in " slot clubs ," which return a fraction of the amount of money that is bet in the form of comps ( complimentary food, drinks, hotel rooms, or merchandise ), or sometimes as cash or a promise to pay cash at a later date.

In this legend, Vishnu ( in the form of Vamana ) tricks the malevolent king Bali, who has secured dominion over the whole Earth, by making Bali promise to grant Vamana all the land he can cover in three paces.

Cognitive theory contends that solutions to problems take the form of algorithms — rules that are not necessarily understood but promise a solution, or heuristics — rules that are understood but that do not always guarantee solutions.

It was given as a form of promise of fidelity and love.

Another common form are the emails that promise users monetary rewards for forwarding the message or suggest that they are signing something that will be submitted to a particular group.

Balfour refused to be drawn on whether or not he would be willing to form a Conservative government, but advised the King not to promise to create peers until he had seen the terms of any proposed constitutional change.

: The other promise of anthropology, one less fully distinguished and attended to than the first, has been to serve as a form of cultural critique for ourselves.

They have shown distinct promise as a diagnostic agent for some cancers, but their status as a form of therapy remains experimental and outside the main thread of cancer research.

This choice of the rainbow, in the form of a flag for convenience, harkens back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise.

Soon after his successful election, he fulfilled his promise to " drain that abominable pestilence-ridden swamp ", and pushed the Florida legislature to form a group of commissioners to oversee reclamation of flooded lands.

Balfour refused to be drawn on whether or not he would be willing to form a Conservative government, but advised the King not to promise to create peers until he had seen the terms of any proposed constitutional change.

Vamana then took on the form of Mahavishnu and was pleased by King Mahabali's determination and ability to keep his promise, despite his spiritual master's curse and the prospect of losing all his wealth.

When banknotes were first introduced, they were, in effect, a promise to pay the bearer in coins, but gradually became a substitute for the coins and a form of money in their own right.

The promise to pay a debt discharged by bankruptcy, the promise to perform a conditional responsibility despite the nonoccurrence of the condition, and the promise to perform on a voidable contract form a category of moral obligations that can bind in the absence of consideration.

A popular form of this is the " 50 – 50 " draw where the organizers promise that the prize will be 50 % of the revenue.

To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word ( such as a swear word ) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation, or " minced oath ".

Njörðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, in euhemerized form as a beloved mythological early king of Sweden in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, as one of three gods invoked in the 14th century Hauksbók ring oath, and in numerous Scandinavian place names.

Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the " willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

Thus, he refused to take the oath in the form in which it would renounce all claims of jurisdiction over the church except the sovereign's.

Congress may determine the form of such an oath.

Several variants of the oath have been used since 1789 ; the current form, which is also recited by Senators, Representatives and other government officers, has been used since 1884:

While there is currently no legal obligation for medical students to swear an oath upon graduating, 98 % of American medical students swear some form of oath, while only 50 % of British medical students do.

Brotherhoods were used as a form of defense, as each sworn brother was bound by an oath of blood to assist a brother in need.

By condemning people because of a godless oath or their alleged alliance with the devil, that one can speak of a late form of processes that resemble those of alleged witches appear.

In royalist and conservative circles, the oath was seen as an indicator of the Assembly's commitment to anarchy and it was felt that a more robust form of counter-revolutionary politics were needed to ensure the survival of the monarchy.

He soon became alienated from the Church on several matters ; and after the requirement of the " et cetera oath ", he rejected episcopacy in its English form.

In England the common form of court oath is to swear with the right hand on the Bible, though alternatives are available.

As late as 1880, Charles Bradlaugh was denied a seat as an MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom as because of his professed atheism he was judged unable to swear the Oath of Allegiance in spite of his proposal to swear the oath as a " matter of form ".

The Khudai Khidmatgar was founded on a belief in the power of Gandhi's notion of Satyagraha, a form of active non-violence as captured in an oath.

The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name " Bathsheba " is " daughter of the oath ", " bath " meaning daughter.

Her name, which perhaps means " daughter of the oath ", is in I Chronicles 3: 5 spelled " Bath-shua ", the form becomes merely a variant reading of " Bath-sheba ".

He said it would have been hypocritical to voluntarily take the oath " including words of idle and meaningless character " without protest when another form of words was available, but now that the Select Committee had ruled he must, he would do so and " regard myself as bound not by the letter of its words, but by the spirit which the affirmation would have conveyed had I been permitted to use it ".

6: 1 – 9 ); divorce and remarriage, except for the one Scriptural reason ( Matt 19: 9 ); every form of oath ( Matt.

After the Coroners take the oath, the Lieutenant Governor states, " Learned deemsters, I exhort you to proclaim to the people in ancient form such laws as have been enacted during the past year and which have received the Royal Assent.

The president invites Vajpayee to form a government and take the oath as prime minister on 19 March and gives him ten more days to prove his parliamentary majority.

After the introduction of Protestantism, the fermentation caused by the introduction of new social principles into the life of a people would exhaust its revolutionary beginnings, and result in a new form of social and religious order-the residue of the great Protestant upheaval in Europe was territorial or State Religion, based on the religious supremacy of the temporal ruler, in contradistinction to the old order in which the temporal ruler took an oath of obedience to the Catholic Church.

A series of disputes, in 1747 over the burgesses oath, and in the late 18th century over the Westminster confession, led to further splits, but in 1820 two of the groups united to form the " United Associate Synod of the Secession Church ", also known as the United Secession Church.

The Act relieved all magistrates of their previous oaths of allegiance to Philip, and prescribed a new oath of allegiance to the States of the province in which they served, according to a form prescribed by the States-General.