Sentence examples for for making the pledge from inspiring English sources

Was that apology for making the pledge or breaking it?

Richards says Clegg only apologised for making the pledge.

He claimed Clegg's tuition fees apology had been both for making the pledge and breaking it, and said that that issue should have been "a red line" during the coalition negotiations.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, as immigration moves to the forefront of the national debate and we face the possibility that millions of undocumented immigrants could soon become American citizens, calls for making the pledge of allegiance mandatory have recently surfaced Michigan and Nebraska, two of the few remaining states without laws requiring the pledge.

Q: You were apologising for making the tuition fee pledge, not the pledge itself.

The rest of the brothers were standing around now, post-party, working on the keg — the ones who weren't off getting laid, that is — and they added jeers and head slaps, barking out random orders and making the pledges drop for twenty at the slightest provocation (and being alive, breathing, and present seemed provocation enough).

The previous Coalition government had declined to make the pledge for the UK beyond the next financial year.

"It's a work in progress," said Maureen R. Connelly, a spokeswoman for Joshua P. Rechnitz, who made the pledge in April.

Burbank was the second of three cities in California to make the pledge for their fleets.

This contradicts Clegg, who said that his apology was not for the tuition fee vote, but for the party's decision to make the pledge saying it would not support a tuition fee increase in the first place.

He rules out allowing Mr Fortuyn to take part in government, and criticises both Mr Dijkstal and Mr Balkenende for not making the same pledge.