Sentence examples for A binding pledge from inspiring English sources

In the wake of lawsuits by the Fund for Animals and other groups, the bureau required anyone adopting a mustang to sign a binding pledge not to send it to a slaughterhouse.

The final accord, a 12-paragraph document, was a statement of intention, not a binding pledge to begin taking action on global warming — a compromise seen to represent a flawed but essential step forward.

Although there were hopes that last year's United Nations talks in Copenhagen would lead to an important accord on climate change, the final document to come out of the summit was a statement of intention, not a binding pledge, to begin taking action on global warming.

His name is often traditionally invoked in Imerina when paying tribute to the ancestors or making a binding pledge.

And he was far too shrewd a player than to ever sign a binding pledge like Grover Norquist's document and, tie his hands.

The company signed a legally binding pledge in July promising it would no longer allow advertisers to discriminate, as part of a settlement with the attorney general of Washington state.

More importantly, Mr. Fleischer said, the two leaders did not sign any binding pledges that would limit action by the next president.

The Suffolk Superior Court jury, ruling in a lawsuit by Coretta Scott King, found that a July 16 , 1964 letter that King signed constituted a binding charitable pledge to the school where he obtained his doctorate in theology.

Any endorsement by the union of players standing for the anthem would amount to a non-binding pledge, if the owners indeed agree to waive any discipline of a player who protests.

He revealed that the agreement would include a legally-binding pledge to keep global warming "well below" 2C, as well as the goal of aiming for the "acceptable" threshold of 1.5C.

The national anthem is as good a metaphor as any for the blind, binding pledges of romantic love.