Sentence examples for avoid pledges from inspiring English sources

"Will you sign the Fake News Pledge?" "I try to avoid pledges, but I also try to avoid fake news, so we're on the same page, but I can't sign sorry," he wrote.

Regardless, it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid pledging allegiance to at least one of them.

I and many men wanted to flee to avoid pledging allegiance but we were stopped by militants who were guarding the mosque.

Other giveaways to avoid: pledging your allegiance to the "sisterhood", quoting Beyonce like she's Gloria Steinham and saying stuff like, "Personal growth is basically impossible when you've got a boyfriend, you know?" Hear that ping?

Hunt declined to comment on whether she would take the job at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival today, but also avoided pledging her future to the BBC.

Maybe if Trump had noticed the awkwardness with which (if we believe Comey's account) the F.B.I. director ducked out of a hug, or the belabored way in which he avoided pledging his loyalty, Trump would have realized sooner that Comey was not his friend, and not part of his cadre.

It is normal in an election campaign to avoid firm pledges to do unpopular things.

Stone Age got an installation contract with Home Depot after Mr Nagin helped the retailer to avoid a pledge to hire local people at above-market rates at a new store in the city.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was said to have fought strongly to avoid firm funding pledges.

For a long time, it seemed like smart politics to avoid issuing specific pledges — such as which government programs he would cut and which tax deductions he would eliminate — that his opponents could pick apart.

But unlike Ronald Reagan, who promised at the 1988 convention that he would gladly serve as "a foot soldier" in George Bush's forthcoming campaign if needed, Mr. Clinton avoided a pledge to crisscross the country this fall for Mr. Gore.