Sentence examples for issued pledges from inspiring English sources

Panicking as the race has closed in its final weeks, the Westminster parties have hurriedly issued pledges of Scottish home rule that they had not previously planned to make.

These nations had been on track to become major carbon emitters but this year issued pledges that have raised hopes they will greatly curtail their outputs, increasing some negotiators' hopes for Paris.

This week, as the world's most polluting nations issued pledges to cut emissions and increase renewable energy, attention turned to climate talks scheduled this December in Paris, where an international agreement will be forged.

An upbeat communiqué was duly issued, pledging more aid, more debt relief for poor countries and freer trade.

Hence the attempt to stoke fear by focusing on Mr Howard's supposed nastiness.On the non-nasty level, Labour is repeating the tactic it used in 1997 and 2001, of issuing pledge cards with five promises then, and six now.

As Musharraf issued his pledges in Islamabad, the Army dispatched several fresh brigades into the mountains, and they fanned out into villages on the highest ridges.

Following the shock of the Irish No vote, other European leaders issued binding pledges that this rule change would be reversed, and that if Lisbon came into force, the Irish (and all other EU countries) would keep "their" commissioner.

Once a President issues pledges of this sort, he has an enormous incentive to try to follow through on them, even if that involves further military escalation.

The Republican party recently issued a "Pledge to America" to explain its beliefs and campaign promises.

On its Web site, the N.F.L. Players Association issued a pledge of solidarity, and promised to stand firm against "those few who stand against us" — that is, presumably, the owners.

There's also fallout from last weekend's meeting of G20 finance ministers -- where the world's leading nations issued a pledge to avoid a currency war.