Some imply that his pro-choice pledge may have always been a ruse.
The Susan B. Anthony List's anti-choice pledge, on the surface, seems like nothing a nominal opponent of abortion has to worry about, until you consider the fact that it binds the signer to making no pro-choice appointments to the Cabinet.
DES MOINES — Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota formally opened his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday and presented himself as a candidate willing to confront tough political choices, pledging to reinvent or dismantle programs like ethanol subsidies, Medicare and Social Security to address the nation's fiscal burdens.
Military personnel and their families were given a choice - pledge allegiance to Russia, quit the army and stay in Crimea or leave for mainland Ukraine.
Others are given a choice to pledge allegiance or die.
'To the parents who make that choice, we pledge that we will there with them all the way', he says.
He is also one of a handful of young players who, faced with a choice, have pledged their allegiance to the United States national team program.
In the short run, there is only one choice: funds pledged to Medicare and Social Security will have to be used.
Through it all, Ms. Maloney, who represents parts of Manhattan and Queens, remained defiant, insistent about the need to give Democratic voters a choice and pledging to run an aggressive campaign.
Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Sunnis have been faced with the choice of pledging their allegiance to the Shiite-led government in Baghdad or to the armed groups within their own community.
In one of the most closely watched experiments in urban education, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who has built a national reputation on his criticism of teachers' unions, and Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, a leading champion of school choice, have pledged to turn around the 40,000-student system.
