Sentence examples for accepted a pledge from inspiring English sources

7 30 p.m. 3) Hockey Night in Grand Forks In 1998, the University of North Dakota accepted a pledge of $100 million from Ralph Engelstad, an alumnus who owned a Las Vegas casino where he staged Third Reich dress-up parties on Hitler's birthday.

IS accepted a pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in March, giving the group its first foothold in sub-Saharan Africa in its efforts to create a global caliphate.

In May, the leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq accepted a pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram, according to his spokesman.

Bin Laden was apparently so concerned at the potential damage to the "al-Qaida" brand that he was reluctant to accept a pledge of allegiance from leaders of the Al-Shabab group in Somalia, which he saw as indisciplined, indiscriminate in their violence and lacking popular support, a letter from August 2010 reveals.

When the top leadership accepts a pledge of allegiance, those fighters presumably bring some level of trust or they represent something worthwhile for the organization.

That would tend to suggest that some kind of assessment is being made at a leadership level as to whether or not the Islamic State can feasibly accept a pledge of allegiance.

At the last minute, the crisis was resolved without war, as Khrushchev accepted a final U.S. offer pledging not to invade Cuba in exchange for the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles.

That was a grim marker on the road to the crunch that hit this month, when Ireland accepted a $90 billion international bailout package, pledged on the government's promise of instituting the harshest austerity measures in Europe.

To accept a thing as a pledge knowing that it did not belong to the pledgor was also furtum – not merely acting as an accomplice.

Mr Farage said he accepted that such a pledge would cost money.

One of the lessons of the last week is how little it took -- from Washington, the U.N. and the African Union -- to nudge Sudan into accepting a cease-fire and pledging access for humanitarian workers.