The biggest surprise, for its substance as well as for its intensity, was Vice-President Joe Biden's moving and fiercely committed speech exhorting viewers to "change the culture" regarding sexual assault and to "take the pledge" regarding the It's On Us initiative, a commitment to "intervene in situations where consent has not or cannot be given".
Boss Alex McLeish will be hoping Yeung stays true to his August pledge regarding transfer funds.
My position, and the implications of the pledge regarding such "temporary" tax cuts, is clear.
Mr. Obama has tried to hew to his pledge regarding the island's political status.
Whether children are using the Web at the library or at home, many experts recommend that parents and children agree on specific guidelines -- in essence, a pledge -- regarding children's use of the Web, e-mail or instant messaging.
However, he expressed his disappointment that despite President Obama's personal assurance to him that finances committed in Copenhagen would be made available, he had received word from contacts at the UN that the U.S. was not supportive of Ethiopia's proposal for a panel to monitor financial pledges regarding climate change.
But unlike its promise to restore over $30bn in schools funding over the next 10 years, an amount also cut in the 2014 Abbott budget, it is making no specific long-term pledges regarding hospitals.
Senate Republican leaders, in their drive to get to fifty-one votes, made pledges regarding these issues to two key senators: Susan Collins, of Maine, who helped defeat the G.O.P. effort to repeal Obamacare; and Jeff Flake, of Arizona, who is a fierce critic of President Trump.
Most the opposition to the pledge is regarding its wording, not its principles.
The United States "made reciprocal pledges except regarding religion, which the Soviet did not desire".
Consider a pledge loan contract paying interest at intervals.
