Then the International Music and Art Foundation, based in Switzerland, got involved, pledging $100,000, because a trustee, Nicholas Thaw, was also a trustee of the World Monuments Fund.
Yesterday, I directed student leaders of Cornell's Greek chapters to develop a system of member recruitment and initiation that does not involve "pledging" — the performance of demeaning or dangerous acts as a condition of membership.
This might involve pledging not to deploy American troops past the 38th parallel, removing THAAD, and persuading China that a unified Korea would be a better trading partner.
Participating risked the wrath of partisans and interest groups on either side, and the senators involved pledged confidentiality.
There is now a formal subcommittee on the board tasked with overseeing citizenship, which involves pledges to provide £150bn of lending over the next three years, to raise £2tn of financing for businesses and to lend £50bn to small businesses.
The "pro-growth" package to create one million jobs involves pledges on high speed rail, new nuclear power stations, large-scale wind turbine manufacture, universal access to high-speed broadband, doubling entrepreneurs' lifetime tax relief to £2m, continued investment in science and commercialisation of research.
The "bargain" involves pledges for a significant strengthening of the so-called "safeguards" in the Direct Action package – the measures to ensure that emissions from electricity generation or manufacturing do not increase so much that they wipe out emission reductions bought by the government from its $2.5bn emissions reduction fund.
This year's International Ms. Leather, Patty, won for her achievements in community service and education (it's like a Rotary Club community service award, except the community service involves pledges to "cruise, fist, and fuck" across the globe), and International Ms. Bootblack, Dara, earned his title because he possessed the best technical skills to take care of his kinky gear. .
This year's International Ms. Leather, Patty, won for her achievements in community service and education (it's like a Rotary Club community service award, except the community service involves pledges to "cruise, fist, and fuck" across the globe)nand International Ms. Bootblack, Dara, earned his title because he possessed the best technical skills to take care of his kinky gear. .
In keeping with the hush-hush tradition, both the seller and the buyer of the latest apartment to trade hands made all parties involved pledge their confidentiality.
