Its plan to return us to solvency — if one can even call it a plan — appears to involve nearly constant on-air pledge drives, which of course bring in ever smaller amounts of money as we alienate our audience.
Poroshenko also warned that in the "foreseeable future" the country will face a "constant military threat," and pledged to spend $3 billion on re-equipping the army from 2015 through 2017.
Edwards said that the plans were at odds with a pledge to stop constant shake-ups of the health service, which has seen the number of health authorities and trusts changed three times in the past decade.
New York State is typical: it has pledged to hold demand constant, but last year, kilowatt hours consumed were up about 1percentt.
The half-dozen examining rooms at the clinic have been serving a constant stream of patients since Mr. Bloomberg pledged $16 million over five years for the clinic to treat anyone who needs it without charge.
And for an industry founded on principles of constant progress, I saw these permanent pledges as a memento mori not just for digital mortality, but the inevitable death of every one of these companies.
While promoting that episode, Lindelof said that it uses the flashback device "in a way we never have before and never will again" and while promoting "The Constant", he said that it "upholds that pledge, unpledges it, then repledges it".
where Bi,b specifies the interest paid to the lender by the hedger who borrows cash and pledges the risky asset S i as collateral, and the constant hi,b represents the haircut for the ith asset pledged.
A chief reason for losing the hand, he said, was that he did not live in the same city where he had the transplant and thus could not maintain the constant medical supervision that he needed and pledged to seek.
Mr. Wen pledged to work to protect intellectual rights, a constant sore spot with the Germans who fear that the Chinese will be able to take their innovations and produce them more cheaply.
