Sentence examples for door pledging from inspiring English sources

If this sounds a little like Alabama in 1962, when Governor Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door pledging "Segregation forever!" and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sent in troops to break that vow, no wonder.

Mr. Pérez, president of the Related Group, got his name on the door by pledging $35 million in cash and artworks, a fraction of the cost of the museum's new building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and now under construction.

They also write that more and more people are coming around, choking down their squeamishness, checking their consciences at the door and pledging to vote for the lesser of two evils.

But the conversations I hear as they walk out the door are not ones pledging undying support.

Pledging mostly happens behind closed doors, but reports of egregious physical hazing occasionally become public: a University of Tennessee fraternity was suspended in late May after pouring hot sauce on its recruits' genitals.

They went door to door for Barak, who repeatedly pledged he would be the prime minister of "ev-er-y-bo-dy".

Responding to complaints from the health sector and voters' anxiety about "privatisation by the back door", the government has pledged changes to stop private companies "cherry-picking" the easiest or most profitable cases, leaving NHS hospitals the expensive conditions and the cost of training doctors.

I mean, this could end up being one departmental "memorandum of understanding" after another, all pledging indistinct, theoretical, future cooperation, bound together with furious abuse of the transitive property and pushed out the front door as an alliance.

Pledging allegiance to Fidel Castro?

In exchange for pledging money, fans will be offered discounted tickets and have the chance to be among the first people through the door.

— were pledging allegiance to Mexico.