Sentence examples for direct pledge from inspiring English sources

Its exultant Saturday night show, in a field with the Berkshire mountains as a backdrop, began with "Wilco (The Song)," which opens its most recent album, and articulates a direct pledge to its audience: "Wilco/Wilco/Wilco will love you, baby".

They suggest that the coldest March for 50 years, which hit the numbers published in April 2013 and led to a fresh wave of concerns about the direct pledge to increase the number of people playing sport through the Games, has not dented participation figures in the longer term.

But coal projects were still receiving U.S funding despite the earlier, vague guidance, and in President Obama's big climate speech in June 2013, he made a more direct pledge to stop funding fossil fuel projects abroad unless they came with carbon-capture technology.

"Ma'am, does that dress have pockets?" At the end, he drummed up $30,000 in a round of direct pledging.

There were not, however, any direct pledges from individual countries willing to send troops to CAR, despite Mr Fabius indicating on Sunday that two unnamed nations were considering it.

Funding, you rightly point out, could have come faster, but more important still is that donors agree to direct their pledges to the reconstruction priorities identified by the I.H.R.C. Gabriel Verret Executive Director Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan.

This may come about by reviving "Obamist" diplomacy, based on enticing with direct dialogue, pledging not to interfere in internal affairs and accepting for a regional role to be played by Tehran's mullahs.

For most donors, a direct gift or pledge may seem like the easiest and most straightforward way to support Harvard.

Fund-raisers such as direct mail and pledge drives can gobble up from 15% to 30% of a charity's annual budget.

Despite the grave allegations of abuse, the UK will use an international conference in London next month to pledge direct funding for the Somali army and police.

Northern Ireland has been plagued by firebombing and rioting, in direct violation of pledges by paramilitary groups to stop fighting.