Sentence examples for describes the pledge from inspiring English sources

It describes the pledge by the new NHS England boss, Simon Stevens, to make efficiency savings of close to £100bn over the five years from 2015 as "heroic", warns that there is no evidence from any other healthcare system that integrating hospital and community services will produce short-term savings, and questions whether even in the medium term they would be on the scale predicted.

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity". Mr Salmond describes the pledge signed by the leaders of the three main Westminster parties that there will be more powers for the Scottish Parliament as the "mythical package of nothing".

The Christian site Life Site News describes the pledge as a promise to "uphold the right to life, the dignity of marriage, and will oppose 'all forms of pornography and prostitution.'" But in fact, the Pledge spends a great deal of its time bashing gay people in general, and gay relationships in particular.

Murphy described the pledge as "the end of the Smith consensus in a single sentence".

Mr. Farrakhan has described the pledge as a "humanitarian" gesture, and last week he formally asked the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department for the necessary permission to receive the money.

The one way Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy refused to describe the pledge of €100 billion ($125 billion) from other euro-zone countries to recapitalise Spain's banks was as a "bail-out".

Other cables to Canberra described the pledge as "a not-too-subtle attempt to build momentum for negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty" but also reported that "the Austrian pledge is fast becoming a galvanising focus for those pushing the ban treaty option".

Mr. Fayyad described the pledges as a "starting point".

In the meantime, the Responsibility Deal has been designed in such a way that makes it difficult to evaluate, while experts describe the pledges made so far as "a drop in the ocean".

Hela Cheikhrouhou, the fund's executive director, described the pledges as "game-changing", and said the money would be spent equally on climate change adaptation and mitigation, especially for the most vulnerable nations.

Writing in the Financial Times last week, conservative journalist Christopher Caldwell describes the Norquist Pledge as a "partisan document," "a ratchet driving taxes down to unsustainable levels" that "symbolizes a political system short on legitimacy".