Sentence examples for instead of pledging from inspiring English sources

Instead of pledging boring old undying love, he throws curveballs.

Instead of pledging never to sell out, these bands are more likely to claim that they already have, and to wonder what it all means.

Instead of pledging arms shipments, troops or massive aid in his sermon, he called for Palestinians to stage a referendum to decide what kind of government they want.

Instead of pledging to increase public sector pay in the next parliament, Clegg might as well have offered us the moon on a stick.

The talk is instead of pledging to lobby on issues like transport and housing.

In their stead are "social clubs", and instead of pledging, students "tap in" to these clubs.

And Chill is a movie recommendation engine that is eschewing the traditional "like/dislike" model of recommendation, instead pledging to dig deeper into the reasons a viewer would want to watch a certain movie.

"Instead of a donor pledging a gift for $500,000 over five years, they will give $100,000 and wait and see about the rest," said Trish Jackson, vice president for development at Smith College.

And instead of signing pledges to Grover Norquist not to ask the wealthiest among us to contribute to bring back the middle class, they should be signing a pledge saying to the middle class, we're going to level the playing field.

The patched-up accord instead consisted of pledges with no official status whatsoever.

To widespread community anger, only one waste treatment plant is fully in operation instead of the seven pledged by the city when it bid for the Olympics in 2007.