Even the Tea Party inspired "Pledge to America" that served as the Republican Party's 2010 campaign manifesto includes a promise to implement it.
Only because it was public, Ms. Illingworth noted, did Bill Gates's and Warren Buffett's "giving pledge" inspire dozens of other extremely wealthy peers to pledge half their fortunes to charity.
I felt so inspired, I pledged I would run it, too – I've always wanted to do something extreme.
Feeney's "giving while living" philosophy helped to inspire The Giving Pledge, an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage America's wealthiest people to commit to giving away the majority of their money to charity during their lifetimes.
We are asking them to make pledges to inspire people to try the net, to encourage and reward people for going online, and to support those groups that might need a helping hand because they lack the skills, financial resource or because of disability.
Yet even as he pledged to "inspire and unite," the Republican presidential nominee took withering aim at Vice President Al Gore.
Their mission: "guns down, four's up", illustrated by four fingers which stand for a pledge to "inspire, educate, advocate, and entertain".
British Cycling launched a strategy in March, acknowledging its gender imbalance in its own governance, and pledging to inspire a million more women to take up the sport by 2020.
Interface pledged to inspire its employees and other organisations to consider people, process, products, places and profits against their impact on the environment and the potential for creating a wider circular economy.
Sen. Ted Cruz of (R-Tex). seems to be the quintessential evangelical candidate: a pastor's son who can strut a campaign rally stage as though it's a revival and who pledged to inspire millions of supposedly apathetic evangelicals to vote for a resurgent Christian America.
