Word: foresworn
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...desire to take on a larger leadership role in the country. A formal political alliance between Sittar and Maliki would leave little room in the political sphere for Sunnis affiliated with Tawafiq, which is thought to have ties to elements of the Sunni insurgency Sittar and his followers have foresworn...
...Hugh von Hofmannsthal, an author exemplary of the so-called “language crisis” studied in the course, is featured in several places in the exhibition. One Hofmannsthal quote, part of which lamentingly asks, “[W]hy seek again for words which I have foresworn!,” runs along the perimeter of the room above the works of visual art, elevated about eight-and-a-half feet off of the ground...
Sissela Bok has not entirely foresworn the group's age-old practices "The Boks still attend all the parties," Williams says. "The white gloves are gone, but she still greets people...
...relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost...
...Yale has had any contact with Wes Lockwood except by permission of his parents and in their presence. Since then, Wes has stated that he had not left Yale under any pressure, that he was not kidnapped and that he is glad for what happened. He has also foresworn his closest friends and associates and described his own manner of life at Yale in terms that no one who knew him, even casually, can accept. This much is clear, a tremendous change occurred in my friend Wes, in less than eight days. What was done to him to effect this...