At Fort Niagara in early May, Loyalist Captain John Butler held a conference with several hundred tribesmen, primarily from the Six Nations of the Iroquois, in which his goal was to break pledges of neutrality some of them had made in 1775.
They said they favored bankruptcy because it would enable the Big Three to break pledges made in labor contracts and promises for health care and pensions made to retirees.
What could she do in a post-Brexit world to make good on that broken pledge?
A broken pledge by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, not to raise them is widely credited with costing the Liberal Democrats legions of student voters.
After their disastrous student fees broken pledge, the Lib Dems are in dire need of good causes they can claim as their own.
Jim Brandt, president of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, an independent good-government research organization in Baton Rouge, said voters did not appreciate a broken pledge.
This was precisely the sort of comment he had promised not to make upon taking over the Party — reminded of his broken pledge, Fortuyn replied, "That shouldn't bother me!" — and, naturally, it got a lot of press.
Although Mr. Bush's surname gave him many advantages, it also saddled him with a few pieces of baggage, none heavier than the broken pledge of his father, former President George Bush, not to raise taxes.
Despite the Conservative party's recent travails over its broken pledge to bring net migration down to the low tens of thousands, the issue has been a special bind for Labour.
Not enough attention has been paid to a remarkable U-turn, and a piece of buck-passing, by the government over its broken pledge to give defendants in rape cases anonymity.
We're in "monumental climbdown", "U-turn", "broken pledge" territory.
