Sentence examples for lack of pledges from inspiring English sources

OMG, no wonder Zeta Alpha Zeta is about to be closed down for lack of pledges and heinous crimes against footwear.

During the student unrest of the late 1960s, criticism of such societies was especially widespread, and many were forced to close for lack of pledges.

The $6 billion figure for Iraq has been circulating among policy makers at the World Bank, the United Nations and the Bush administration as they struggle to plan for an international donors' conference this month that they fear could be judged a failure for lack of pledges.

All three main parties have made commitments to limiting the pay of bankers and public-sector executives in the run-up to the election, but there has been a noticeable lack of pledges to crack down on the remuneration of board members in the private sector.

The lack of orchestration — despite pledges to the contrary from European Union officials Monday and a plea from the head of the International Monetary Fund to step forward with concrete plans — raised the prospect that the European Central Bank would need to help mop up the mess by cutting interest rates, a move hinted at by the E.C.B.'s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, last week.

Many women and men in the villages showed reluctance and lack of enthusiasm in pledging, even when they recognized the benefits.

Both the Haitian government and international donors have acknowledged the slow pace of rebuilding, attributed mainly to bureaucratic delays and a lack of follow-through on pledges.

Shifting demographics—namely the expulsion of poor and black residents—is a plain and stark reality, one that's compacted by an absence of tenant protections and a lack of teeth behind politicians' pledges about "development without displacement".

18.1 % of the firms also did not apply because of lack of collateral that can pledge to financial institutions.

Now begins the hardest work, as all nations work towards a deal in Copenhagen in 2009 to address the defining challenge of our time.' However there was palpable disappointment with the huge concessions made to get America's agreement, mostly over lack of detail about any key pledges.

For the children's charities holding the government to its pledge, the lack of sufficient follow-through is a betrayal.