Sentence examples for a generous pledge from inspiring English sources

Renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center upon receipt of a generous pledge from the Davis family, the institution became a nexus for lively discussions and research into once inaccessible archives and regions.

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of five partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a private-public partnership that includes the World Heath Organization, said the world was close to ending polio: "It's fantastic to see such a generous pledge from the UK to the global effort to eradicate polio.

The Barcelona Football Club placed UNICEF's name on the front of its jersey, and also made a generous pledge of 6.5 million Euros.

In 1996, Harvard's Russian Research Center (RRC) was renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center, in honor of a most generous pledge from the Davis family.

This is what they told me: "There is no conceivable way we will go into the next election backing a higher cap than 1% above inflation and will decide whether we can make a more generous pledge nearer the election".

While welcome, given Egypt's squeezed finances, a generous Saudi pledge of $4 billion in aid raises Egyptian fears that strings may be quietly attached.

Today, nearly a year later, the generous pledges of international aid have yet to materialize, says Farmer, and the peril has expanded to include a cholera outbreak.

"Faced with conflicts or natural disasters that capture the world's attention, states make generous pledges," Colum Lynch wrote in a 2010 Foreign Policy article on aid pledges to Gaza.

Yet despite the generous pledges of aid, history suggests expectations may need to be tempered.

To keep developing world economies from imploding further, richer countries must fulfill their generous pledges to increase support through the International Monetary Fund.

"We've had some major donors who have made some generous pledges".