Sentence examples for a direct pledge from inspiring English sources

Its exultant Saturday night show, in a field with the Berkshire mountains as a backdrop, began with "Wilco (The Song)," which opens its most recent album, and articulates a direct pledge to its audience: "Wilco/Wilco/Wilco will love you, baby".

But coal projects were still receiving U.S funding despite the earlier, vague guidance, and in President Obama's big climate speech in June 2013, he made a more direct pledge to stop funding fossil fuel projects abroad unless they came with carbon-capture technology.

There were not, however, any direct pledges from individual countries willing to send troops to CAR, despite Mr Fabius indicating on Sunday that two unnamed nations were considering it.

They suggest that the coldest March for 50 years, which hit the numbers published in April 2013 and led to a fresh wave of concerns about the direct pledge to increase the number of people playing sport through the Games, has not dented participation figures in the longer term.

"Ma'am, does that dress have pockets?" At the end, he drummed up $30,000 in a round of direct pledging.

For most donors, a direct gift or pledge may seem like the easiest and most straightforward way to support Harvard.

Warren also made a direct appeal to women, pledging to support equal pay for equal work and to safeguard abortion rights.

Increasing fees would mean a direct reversal of personal pledges made at the election by Liberal Democrat MPs - and will cause deep political difficulties for the coalition government.

Nicola Sturgeon has issued a direct challenge to Ed Miliband to pledge that Labour will join forces with the SNP after the general election to lock the Conservatives out of power.

The pledge was a direct response to a letter, expressing rightful outrage, written a whole year ago by public health educators.

It is the Haitians who have a stake in ensuring that there is a direct correlation between what was pledged and what is actually done.