Sentence examples for balance pledge from inspiring English sources

DeMint's "Cut, Cap, And Balance" pledge requires signers to support a balanced budget amendment and a supermajority requirement for raising taxes.

Another pledge, known as "the cut, cap and balance pledge," became a thorn in the side of Speaker John A. Boehner this summer.

There is the cut, cap and balance pledge to gut the federal government by cutting and capping spending, and enacting a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who drew up the House budget plan that includes many tax cuts, said that signing the cut, cap and balance pledge "seemed like you were saying you are not ever going to vote to raise the debt ceiling," and derided it as essentially pointless, even as he voted for supportive legislation.

Take the hot new thing in campaign pledges -- the "Cut, Cap, And Balance Pledge".

Last June, Beck said to Santorum, "I could kiss you in the mouth," after Santorum said he had signed on to the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge.

Critics fear that Mr Blair's carefully balanced pledge to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" has become lopsided in favour of the first half.

Gibowski says $1.3 billion already is in the bank, with the balance in pledges made by German companies.

The pledge balance last year was $97 million, well ahead of the $61 million haul from the tuition, conventionally defined.

For the balance, they would pledge to consign paintings for the next sale six months later, promising the auction house it could draw the money owed when those paintings sold.

In 1851, he represented the Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.