Sentence examples for historic pledges from inspiring English sources

Labour's failure on the 2010 goal shows what happens when historic pledges are not backed up by real investment.

"The share of total development assistance invested in the poorest countries is at its lowest level since 2005, when world leaders gathered in Gleneagles and made historic pledges to end extreme poverty," said Adrian Lovett, the ONE campaign's Europe director, who urged donors to send at least 50% of their aid to LDCs.

Earlier this week, the US and China made what US President Barack Obama described as "historic" pledges on emissions, with the US promising greater cuts and China for the first time setting a date by which emissions would peak.

Tory Eurosceptics welcomed Mr Cameron's historic pledge to hold the country's first referendum on Europe since 1975.

Historic pledge from Eli and Edythe Broad to propel institute into a new decade of biomedical discovery to benefit patients.

That historic pledge of Franco-German friendship had established the idea that the two countries, above all others, would drive Europe towards integration.

In 1995, Wu made a historic pledge to the With One Accord fundraising campaign, which was held as part of the University's 250th anniversary.

Born from a historic pledge by the ANC in 1994, the scheme to provide brick houses to all those in need is too costly and too slow.

Meeting that historic pledge of spending 0.7% of gross national income on aid is about keeping our promises to the world's poorest.

Ban also presided over the Paris climate change agreement – a historic pledge by 195 countries to hold global temperatures to a maximum rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

Viewers were told that Natalie Prass was from Virginia and Songhoy Blues from Mali but, otherwise, Later devotes itself almost totally to the third part of the BBC's historic pledge to "educate, inform and entertain".