Sentence examples for kind of pledge from inspiring English sources
Norquist is best known for persuading politicians to sign a quite different kind of pledge: a promise never to raise taxes, which proved to be a roadblock in Congress's debt-ceiling and budget negotiations.
When the bullhorn they had on hand wouldn't coöperate, the group employed a "human mike," repeating the speaker's words phrase by phrase like a kind of pledge of allegiance.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Norquist is best known for persuading politicians to sign a quite different kind of pledge: a promise never to raise taxes, which proved to be a roadblock in Congress's debt-ceiling and budget negotiations.
This would be worth an average of £10.60 a week to one-earner married couples with children and would be introduced probably in the second year of a new Tory government, according to Mr Major.This is the kind of pledge that brings on Whitehall's frowns.
THE PLEDGE II: A different kind of pledge is broken in W. R. Bolen's "Total Frat Move," a satirical celebration of fraternity life that hits the hardcover nonfiction list this week at No. 10. (That dagger after the description means some bookstores have reported bulk sales).
But this is the first time any Labour spokesman has made any kind of pledge to restore the link with inflation.
The speech was full of the kind of pledges that were so noticeably absent from his previous conference addresses and for which critics have been calling.
In fact, Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, has kept the shadow Cabinet on a pretty tight leash – to the frustration of several members barred by him from making just the kind of pledges the Tories claimed as a fact.
If there ever was a time that the bouffant-haired, tennis-playing friend and associate of our cornered leader should step in decisively to secure the kind of pledges he secured for New Labour, that time is now.
Neither were gifts of easy money of the sort that Russia has since (kind of) pledged.
"I was worried to be honest, with him saying, 'I'm Negan,' and him kind of pledging his allegiance to the dark side.
