Sentence examples for at the pledging from inspiring English sources

Government sources said the British contribution at the pledging conference is likely to be hundreds of millions, and independent sources said they expected it to reach £1bn.

At the pledging meeting for Gavi, the global vaccines alliance, hosted by German chancellor Angela Merkel, MSF organised a stunt featuring supporters dressed as Merkel, David Cameron, Barack Obama and others spinning "Pharma's wheel of fortune", claiming that whichever way the wheel was spun, the drug companies always won.

A quick look at the pledge by the World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz, to change Africa "from a continent of despair to a continent of hope" shows why.

Perhaps, they suggested, the deputy economy minister should ask his chief to let him have a look at the pledges Argentina is making to the IMF, which talk not of 8% growth or 5.8% but 4%.

By reconfiguring the graph with a log scale – so that the smaller numbers take up more space – we can take a look at the pledges of other European countries in more detail.

Some commentators scoffed at the pledge as simply another phony Obama "red line," pointing to his warning last year to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria against using chemical weapons.

I've looked at the pledges Boris made under his second headline category - Make buses, trains and stations safer - in my assessment of his transport record as well as here and here.

If you look at the Pledge, it's not intended to be a party platform.

At the pledge event, which was held yesterday, governments announced their annual voluntary contributions in support of UNICEF's core work.

Senator Clinton has balked at signing the pledge, as have all other candidates except Representative Ron Paul. Bruce Fein Chairman, American Freedom Agenda Washington, Oct. 24, 2007.

On the contrary, in our country, because most of the credit assets lack liquidity and a secondary market to trade in, at present, the pledged loan-to-value ratio of storage pledge loans in our banking industry is generally defined as 70%%.