vow

Kenyatta made a Bush-like vow to continue the war on Al-Shabab, saying, “We will not flinch.”

Under unusually blue skies in Beijing, the American and Chinese presidents vow cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

He made the vow on June 30, and I remember thinking at the time how strange it seemed.

Somewhat coyly, Skidmore admits that “Richard was to break this solemn vow in spectacular style.”

Hamas spokesmen stand by the hospital gates and denounce the attack on Al Shejaiya as a massacre and vow to fight on.

My mother opposed her vow to his; not to suffer her child to leave her, till the time of her being professed.

The swearing of an oath always brings under obligation to God, and therefore always includes the making of a vow.

I have made a vow never to be hanged in the beginning of a revolution, nor to be shot in the beginning of a war.

The apprehension that God will punish for not making fulfilment to him accompanies equally the oath and the vow.

In like manner, the Nazarite separated himself from certain things, not merely in reality, but likewise by vow.