Sentence examples for a pledge to put from inspiring English sources

He ran for governor in 2010 on a pledge to put any tax increase to the voters.

These included guaranteed hours for shop workers on zero-hours contracts and a pledge to put a worker's representative on the board.

The cost of living, rather than tax, is the centrepiece of a manifesto that promises a cap on gas and electricity bills and a pledge to put a ceiling on rent rises hitting the millions renting privately.

President Obama officially announced his new brain research initiative on Tuesday, with a pledge to put $100 million in his 2014 budget to support work at three federal agencies.

The initiative, first agreed upon by the Group of 8 leaders at their meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, in 2009, was a pledge to put $22 billion into food and agriculture projects.

The deal with Mr. Wilkie, a freshman representative, includes a number of promises on domestic issues, including greater financing for public hospitals and a pledge to put daily transaction limits on Australia's ubiquitous poker machines.

That impression had taken hold after President Bush, responding to pressures from the energy industry, broke a campaign pledge to put a cap on power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, right after she had talked up his intention to control that greenhouse gas.

Another explosive revelation: ALEC State Chairs were handed a draft pledge to put ALEC's interests over its constituent's interests, asked to "act with care and loyalty and put the interests of [ALEC] first".

Amnesty International was particularly critical of leaders for failing to make an explicit pledge to put more efforts into search and rescue operations and open safe routes for refugees to Europe.

It is not every 27-year-old, after all, who can be driven to ecstasy by a candidate's pledge to put the Medicare surplus in a lock box.

Mr. Bush, they said, would also like his cabinet to include at least one Hispanic, blacks and women -- a desire heightened by the closeness of the election, the need to unite a divided country and his sustained campaign pledge to put a new face on the Republican Party.