solemn contract

But even Margrethe represented a solemn contract I could not yet fulfill.

To the Editor: Social Security is an insurance policy and a solemn contract between government and the people, one to be broken only at the peril of the elected officials who break it.

Then, I suppose in order to make this solemn contract public, Marais called the surviving Boers, who were loitering near, and repeated to them the terms of the contract that we had made.

My wife and I, with five college degrees between us, worked all our adult lives and planned our retirement in accordance with the solemn contracts we made with our employers and our Government.

I am, by a solemn contract, the bride of Heaven, unless I could prefer being wedded to villany in the person of Rashleigh Osbaldistone, or brutality in that of his brother.

The catalyst for the First Taranaki War was the disputed sale of a block of land to the British, despite a veto by the paramount chief of the tribe, Wiremu Kingi and a "solemn contract" by local Māori not to sell.