I Take This Oath
A study of the United Arab Emirates legislature under the 1971 Constitution : with special reference to the Federal National Council (FNC)
... ch of them shall, on assuming office, take the follci'ing oath before the Supreme Council: "I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful to the United Arab fluirates; that I will resp[r] ...
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Testing the effectiveness of the oath script in reducing the hypothetical bias in the Contingent Valuation Method
... In other words, they say one thing and do something different. For example, some people state a price they would pay for an item, but they will not pay the price for the item even when they see this product in a grocery ...
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The Sacred Oath of a Secret Ritual: Performing Authority and Submission in the Mafia Initiation Ceremony
... the oath was held in the presence of three members, one of whom, having tied a thread around the new member’s index finger, pierced it and let a few drops of blood fall onto a sacred image, which was then burned ...
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Covenanting Citizens: The Protestation Oath and Popular Political Culture in the English Revolution
... an oath to protect England against the Catholic threat at home and abroad by framing the oath ‘as a covenant of scripture’, with preachers, including Thomas Mocket and Richard Ward, emphasising that the ...
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Horkos [oath] and the sacrament of language – The purloined letter
... mastery. I would argue, taking into consideration Derrida’s thoughts, that as long as this discourse is so clearly spelled out and can be given a name, Lacanian discourse, the discourse of the analyst, or Lacanian ...
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Revisiting Our Professional Oath Amid Shifts in the American Political Landscape
... forward, I suggest that we be the first to provide them with our ...rhetoric take us backward and denigrate those we serve and serve with, may we quickly and confidently stand up for what is right and ...
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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie
... (as I previously noted), merchants relinquished some, and most likely all, their legal recourse in case of dispute with their ...an oath or herem setam ...
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Oath taking and the transnationalism of silence among Edo female sex workers in Italy
... When I got to Italy, I was shocked at how demanding the job was. I was required to work every night and [I was] ‘on call’ without leave of absence even when I fell ...Sometimes, ...
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A Promise Made Is a Promise Kept: Oath-Breakers and Keepers in Tolkien's Middle-earth
... Therefore, in order to be able to protect his men, a lord must outshine his men in bravery. Consequently, Beowulf shows his bravery by letting his retainers know that he could never turn his back on a battle, just before ...
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The physician scientist, the state, and the oath: thoughts for our times
... Triggered by an encounter with survivors of the studies on twins conducted in Auschwitz by Joseph Mengele, who held both MD and PhD degrees, I offer thoughts on the extraordinary powers physician-scientists have ...
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Endowment effect and the gap between WTP and WTA
... China. I place a bulletin board on campus to recruit ...the oath. The other three treatments are long possession with an oath, short possession without an oath, and short possession with an ...
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Ethical Wisdom and Philosophical Judgment in Amish Tripathi's The Oath of Vayuputras
... Book I, 'Land of Pure Life', reveals the anxiety of king Daksha, as his kingdom that so far seemed impenetrable and safe haven for its citizens is under threat by treacherous ...
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A Point of Precedence at Plataia: The Dispute between Athens and Sparta over Leading the Procession
... The action which accompanied the sacrifice was very likely another oath- taking; in Thucydides the guarantee of independence and inviolacy follows Pausanias' sac- rifice in the agora o[r] ...
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Take My Advice—I Am Not Following It: Ad Hominem Arguments as Legitimate Rebuttals to Appeals to Authority
... By way of illustration, consider the following: suppose that renowned moral philosopher M argues vigorously in support of an- imal rights. In virtue of her expertise in moral matters pertaining to the appropriate ...
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Phonological and orthographic processing in normal reading development
... This is what all the words will be like - when I tell you to take out a letter and then tell me what the rest of the word spells this will be a different answer to when I ask you to take[r] ...
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Take-ings
... take meaning “[t]o receive and hold with the intellect.” 30 But in reviewing late eighteenth century dictionaries and the Oxford English Dictionary, I have not found a usage of take consistent with ...
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Medical staff morality
... but I will present it to experienced practitioners"), and abstract notions that leave the freedom of moral choice from the other ("I will use all my strength to help the sick and prevent injustice ...
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May I take your order? A Neural Model for Extracting Structured Information from Conversations
... The decoder then processes this representa- tion and generates a hypothesized structured data record Y as an output sequence, word by word given the context vector c and all previous pre[r] ...
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Orthodoxy vs. Compassion
... The Gospel of Luke discusses many instances of Jesus breaking religious law due to his human compassion. One instance of this is when the religious authorities are trying to find a reason to accuse Jesus, and they ...
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TAKE DOWNS AND THROWS
... Forward rolling breakfall from the kneeling position, step 1 (continued).... He rolls over his left shoulder, along his arm, landing on his right side with his right leg extended in the [r] ...
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