Sentence examples for because of a pledge from inspiring English sources

The arrangements, set out by China's party-controlled parliament, the National People's Congress, were needed because of a pledge to grant the territory a "high degree of autonomy" and eventually "universal suffrage" when it took over from Britain in 1997.

And Representative Peter King of New York said he doesn't feel bound by the pledge any more than he'd insist on attacking Japan now because of a pledge made during World War II.

It is a tradition for trade union members to march in Morocco on May 1, and their numbers appeared lower this year not only because of the rain and a reluctance to provoke further unrest after the terrorist attack, but also because of a pledge by the government to increase public-sector salaries and raise the minimum wage.

It has been dubbed the "anti-Facebook" network because of a pledge to carry no adverts or sell user data.

The Casadys say the Fed erred in making the loans, because it needed a pledge of high-quality collateral from A.I.G. and instead got a big portfolio of impaired assets.

"We need pledges now, because once a pledge is made it takes two to four months to get that food into the stomach of a hungry North Korean".

It's worth noting that the scale of the problem has decreased in recent years, in part because of a cross-agency pledge from the Obama administration to end veterans' homelessness by 2015.

The Turnbull government also accused Labor of "reckless, crass populism" because of its pledge to hold a banking royal commission, while considering its own response to the string of banking scandals to counter the Labor policy, a response which is likely to be announced on Tuesday.

In the video, released Friday on his Web site, two consultants are shown popping Advils and Tums as they bemoan Mr. Donovan's refusal to accept the Independence Party's endorsement because it is under investigation and because of his pledge not to run for a higher office.

Mr. Fabian said investors were also wary of the Alabama's "moral obligation" to help Jefferson County honor its debts, because it did not involve a pledge of new money from the state.

(After the case was dismissed, radical Jewish groups urged violence against Mr. Soobzokov, and he was killed in 1985 by a bomb at his home in Paterson, N.J. ) The secrecy surrounding the Justice Department's handling of the report could pose a political dilemma for President Obama because of his pledge to run the most transparent administration in history.