The UN had been demanding pledges for a three-year tribunal and commitments for the first 12 months.
The colonel's revolutionary-committee loyalists resurfaced in rebel-held areas, demanding pledges of allegiance from drivers trapped in traffic.
This causes them to sell assets, sending prices down further and prompting lenders to demand pledges of even more capital.
In the early years of AIDS, scientists who developed the key biological materials needed to test for the virus demanded pledges for acknowledgment, even co-authorship, from recipients.
In the eastern port city of Feodosia, a group of about 100 Ukrainian marines were also blockaded into their base by armed men demanding they pledge loyalty to the region's new pro-Russian authorities.
Democrats are demanding Republicans pledge not to filibuster the president's picks for the panel, which will not have enough board members to function in August if the stalemate isn't broken.
Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said her work at the group was "unsettling" and demanded a pledge that she promise to recuse herself from any legal or regulatory matters involving it.
But there is fundamental division between those demanding tough pledges, such as ending biodiversity loss by 2020, and those who argue this is not possible.
Koreas Agree to a Dialogue (By The New York Times), SEOUL, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 23 -- North and South Korean negotiators agreed early today on a joint statement to cooperate "through dialogue" after the North rejected a demand that it pledge to abide by its previous commitments, including the 1994 Geneva framework under which the North was to abandon work on nuclear weapons.
It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won". Then on Friday, Trump responded to reports by Comey supporters that during a private dinner months ago, the president demanded Comey pledge his loyalty to him, and Comey refused.
After that, Comey associates retaliated by leaking word that Trump had demanded Comey pledge his loyalty at a private dinner in January.
