Sentence examples for first pledges to from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama first pledges to accept public financing for the general election, then opts out.

As president, that is my first pledge to you tonight.

First pledged to pay £68m of premiums to the government between September 2015 and April 2019.

60 years have passed since the UN first pledged to eradicate statelessness.

That is that Hussain's hanging reminds us why the UK first pledged to fight the death penalty everywhere.

It was a previous secretary general, Kofi Annan, who first pledged to eliminate the scourge of sexual abuse from the UN.

Bevin first pledged to undo the state's expansion of Medicaid, which had helped to shrink the ranks of uninsured Kentuckians more than in almost any other state.

The EU hopes to begin intercepting people-smugglers in the southern Mediterranean on Wednesday, nearly six months after first pledging to target the Libyan smuggling industry.

Mayor Bloomberg first pledged to make them during his inaugural address, and he repeated the pledge in his first major address to the City Council and again in February, when he released his budget plan.

To the distress of its opponents, the industry has grown significantly in the 13 years since Chinese officials first pledged to gradually reduce the number of captive bears to 1,500 from 7,000.

Experts say that some progress has been made in the 15 years since the Association of Southeast Asian Nations first pledged to combat the problem, after one of the worst forest fires in the region's history.