While the previous Administrations pledged fidelity to free trade - and eschewed any government controls in principle - they did in fact agree to managed trade deals, saying that they did so reluctantly.

Judge Webster, now Director of Central Intelligence, came off the Federal bench to run the bureau pledging fidelity to the rule of law.

Publicly, Government officials pledged fidelity to the principles of free-market economics.

The two men have a polite encounter that turns into a sword fight and ends with the two pledging eternal fidelity in a ballet gesture usually reserved for wooing females.

Two weeks later, on the anniversary of Ataturk's death, hundreds of thousands converged on the mausoleum where he is buried, pledging fidelity to his ideals and chanting anti-Government slogans.

In it he pledged fidelity to the Second Vatican Council and paid tribute to his predecessor:

The same mouth that had pledged love and fidelity.

In 1007, Jean, Lord of Bousies, as peer of Cambrésis, pledged fidelity to bishop Herbin Ist, Count of Cambrai.

Each man pledged fidelity, "for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health."

Someone who signs a paper pledging fidelity to a friend, for example, might well ask why sexuality should be a factor in allowing or refusing coverage under the friend's health insurance.