Stronger In said Vote Leave had made a string of pledges, including to spend more on the NHS, boost primary school places, offer more public support to farmers, invest in roads, railways and airports, reduce taxes, drop business rates, reverse welfare, provide state subsidies to the steel industry, and fix potholes.
H. Carl McCall, the state comptroller and a Democratic candidate for governor, dismissed the address as a string of meaningless pledges.
The private sector has become increasingly frustrated at a string of unfulfilled pledges by the government – primarily by the former chancellor George Osborne – to step up investment in British infrastructure.
At a rally on August 2nd at the Jefferson County fairgrounds outside Denver, he waved a printed report card measuring Mr Obama's record against a string of 2008 campaign pledges.
He recalled that in the final presidential TV debate in May 2012 Mr Hollande had made a string of anti-Sarkozy statements in the form of pledges beginning with the words.
That came only days after the release of a court document in which a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, quoted Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, responding to another Microsoft employee's decision to work for Google by reeling off a string of expletives, throwing a chair and pledging to "kill" the other company.
The new pledge follows a string of opinion polls showing that the incumbent party's hard line against Muslim headwear – refusing to permit a new immigrant the right to wear a veil during a ceremony affirming their citizenship – has helped lift it from third to first place in the drawn-out election campaign.
He was the latest in a string of prominent Caucasus Emirate commanders to pledge allegiance to IS. Byutukayev is the commander of the Gardens of the Righteous, a suicide bomber battalion, and is one of the leaders of the Caucasus Emirate, which has been the primary local insurgent group fighting to break away from Russia and establish a state based on Islamic law.
Joanna Rodgers London Congratulations to Nick Clegg for his really imaginative thinking regarding the possible location of new garden cities (Clegg pledges to build a string of new towns along the 'brainbelt of Britain', 6 October).
What will be more interesting is the degree to which he backs the trade unions if they decide to embark on a string of strikes, call a general strike or pledge to defy the legislation and hold illegal strikes if it goes through.
A string of universities, pension funds, charities and businesses have pledged to disinvest from fossil fuel companies on the basis that such holdings are counter-productive to their aims to reduce global warming.
