Public avowals of conversion, often a major part of the service, made members themselves scripts to be enacted and applauded.
If the only argument against medically trained interrogators is merely a contingent avowal of some oath, then this is not a particularly powerful objection.
It is simply the avowal of introspection, just as one might report imagining anything else visual, tactile, or auditory.
All religious punishment hinged on penitence and an avowal of guilt.
There may well have been frequent political avowal of no guilt by association, no scapegoating, but the shadow persists.
Organizational approaches to shame: management, avowal and contestation.
They may monitor and take their guidance from my current avowals of preference or my past instructions.
His preconditions were meant to curb undue shrinking of the scope of historical analyses after the new avowal of the over-riding importance of texts.