Sentence examples for explicit pledge from inspiring English sources

Even so, London was granted the Games over Paris on the explicit pledge of an Olympic legacy.

That explicit pledge had been the cornerstone of Beijing's stated nuclear policy for the last half-century.

The new guidelines include a more explicit pledge that gardens would be preserved if the groups running them were in good standing.

And the elections will produce more new faces, some of which belong to candidates running on an explicit pledge to shake things up even more.

Most of today's Republican lawmakers have signed an explicit pledge never to do so, even though this puts the party on the wrong side of public opinion.

Even so, Mr. Ashcroft received his first explicit pledge of support from a Democratic senator today when Zell Miller of Georgia said he would vote for his confirmation.

Indeed, the only explicit pledges in the manifesto relate to the new single equalities commission, and the promise of a single equalities law.

The US, Israel and Britain wanted the Palestinians to give explicit pledges they would not seek to join the ICC any time soon and also to resume peace negotiations with the Israelis that were abandoned in 2010 over a settlement expansion.

There will be explicit pledges, some of which we already know: the Tories will woo the City with the promise of balancing the books by 2018; Labour will stoke its core base in abolishing the bedroom tax; and – remembering that they're leaking votes to the Greens – the Liberal Democrats plan to introduce a Zero Carbon Bill to "end Britain's adverse impact on climate change for good by 2050".

Without explicit, binding pledges on energy efficiency and renewable energy, the EU's end goals can seem wan and abstract abroad.

Mega-donations, assuming Mr. Zuckerberg makes good on his pledge, are explicit acknowledgments that the money should be plowed back into society.