The phrase "advance pledges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to commitments or promises made ahead of time, often in the context of fundraising or project planning.
Example: "The organization received several advance pledges from donors to support the upcoming charity event."
Alternatives: "preliminary commitments" or "prior pledges".
For months, arms control advocates have argued for a series of steps to advance the pledge he made to pursue "a world without nuclear weapons". An unequivocal no-first-use pledge would have been the boldest of those measures.
But the commander of the US air war in Iraq and Syria heralded the advance and pledged fire support for it.
On paper at least, the two secessionist parties have the numbers they need to advance their pledge to declare independence within the next 18 months.
Relativity plonked down a $4m advance and pledged in the region of $25m in prints and advertising and almost eight months later, it opens at No 5 on a limp $9m.
In declaring on Friday that he would join with Mr. Murphy and Mr. Malloy, the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut, to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of its new tax law, Mr. Cuomo was advancing a pledge he had been promoting for weeks.
Sadly, as the world advances its pledge to women's and children's health care, resources are often taken from other accounts to pay for it.
The mooted $3.5m book advance was technically pledged to Simpson's children - meaning that this lucre, too, would be safe from seizure.
Gun violence prevention groups, which won three important victories on state-level ballot measures to advance gun control, pledged to play strong defense and to keep pushing for gun control legislation.
For good or ill, scruffy foreign vagabonds are not an approved visitor category in a country that admits only about 27,000 closely regulated tourists a year, each of them scheduled to an advance itinerary and pledged to a $250-a-day 250-a-day 250-a-day minimum
With enough people pledging advance support, this might well encourage Schweitzer to run.
