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Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.

As a result, he ended up killing one of the people he was sworn to protect.

Snowden has irretrievably made himself a sworn enemy of the American national security state.

It is the citizens' lives that matter, that the police are sworn to protect.

This isn't a problem for state prosecutions because a DPS trooper is a sworn officer and is usually considered a reliable witness.

You probably think that your counteroffer was confidential because you’d sworn her to secrecy.

I could have sworn there was no time limit on the west lothian council page, but I'm probably wrong.

Oh my bad, I could have sworn I read something about amateur radio in it.

I could have sworn I saw a guy do this over at gamedev.net in 2003.

I could have sworn the old idea was that factories would shift from working for the executive suite to working for the workers.

Last week I would have sworn the same was true of cars.

I've just sworn off every working on a C++ legacy codebase.

If you would stop labeling the author as one of "them" in your political world-view that you are sworn to defeat, I think you may start to see a lot of parallels between what he's describing and what you seem to think of as "free-market capitalism".

I am not a US citizen, a supporter of the militarization of the police, or their unchecked use of power, but your third (numbered) point: "[1] Being a foreigner, I'm not protected by your constitution and the officers haven't sworn to protect and serve me." is incorrect.