Sentence examples for balanced by a pledge from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, in the guidelines for prospective coalition partners drawn up by Mr Barak's negotiating team, the commitment to freeze settlement activity is balanced by a pledge not to dismantle any settlements before the final status negotiations with the Palestinians are concluded.

As chancellor, Gordon Brown pledged that the Labour government would keep the nation's finances balanced by only borrowing to invest over the life span of an economic cycle.

He also pledged that a measure of the so-called "structural" budget deficit — i.e., one that strips out the effects of the economic cycle — would be balanced by 2015-16.

He also pledged that a measure of the so-called "structural" budget deficit i.e., one that strips out the effects of the economic cycle would be balanced by 2015-16.

Mr. O'Connor said that every time a lender makes a loan backed by a pledge of property as security, the lender needs some assurance that the value of the property is sufficient to cover the unpaid balance of the loan.

A loan was made and a note taken, secured by a pledge of worthless bank-stock.

The books he pledged to balance, by knocking heads together and rooting out corruption, now resemble those of Greece, with a $25bn public deficit, creaking services, and red ink everywhere.

Last year, 189,000 people took part by making a pledge online - and this year the aim is to get 500,000 pledges.

Mr. Hollande has proved to be unlike any of his Socialist predecessors, by campaigning partly on a pledge to balance the budget by the end of the presidential term in 2017.

Their pay would be frozen until the nation's books are balanced, which Labour has pledged to do by 2020.

Philip Hammond, the chancellor of the Exchequer, cast aside the language of austerity and shelved a pledge by his predecessor to balance the budget by 2020.