Sentence examples for demanding pledges from inspiring English sources

The colonel's revolutionary-committee loyalists resurfaced in rebel-held areas, demanding pledges of allegiance from drivers trapped in traffic.

The UN had been demanding pledges for a three-year tribunal and commitments for the first 12 months.

This causes them to sell assets, sending prices down further and prompting lenders to demand pledges of even more capital.

In the early years of AIDS, scientists who developed the key biological materials needed to test for the virus demanded pledges for acknowledgment, even co-authorship, from recipients.

But there is fundamental division between those demanding tough pledges, such as ending biodiversity loss by 2020, and those who argue this is not possible.

In the eastern port city of Feodosia, a group of about 100 Ukrainian marines were also blockaded into their base by armed men demanding they pledge loyalty to the region's new pro-Russian authorities.

Democrats are demanding Republicans pledge not to filibuster the president's picks for the panel, which will not have enough board members to function in August if the stalemate isn't broken.

We are going to keep traveling all around the country, speaking to rooms filled with citizen activists, and spreading our message, including in song: "Bom-ba-ba-bom-ba-bom-ba-bom-bom, Hands off Medicare!" Sign our petition to Senate Republicans demanding they pledge to vote no on any reconciliation bill that includes Medicare or Medicaid.

Euro zone members have demanded those pledges in exchange for signing off on any new funds.

The tensions broke into the open on Wednesday, when it emerged that Southern European nations — including Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain — had demanded concrete pledges from the rest of the bloc to help manage the influx of migrants, which continues to cost lives, overwhelm southern countries' resources and clash with the bloc's humanitarian ideals.

McCarthy demanded loyalty pledges to the United States.