The papal claims to territory in Italy originated with Pippin's campaigns against Aistulf and the latter's pledge to return the Roman territories.
It doesn't initially rank with adding 1,000 police officers to our streets or balancing the budget and not raising taxes — the latter a pledge that doesn't quite hold up, given a property tax increase for schools.
Tehran and the Saud family government have sparred recently over the latter's pledge to make up for any cut in Iranian oil exports as a result of American- and European-imposed sanctions.
Locals are still hoping Putin will give a little more support than bandits and humanitarian aid — the latter was pledged yesterday by the Russian president — but the pleas for military reinforcements, or at least peacekeeping troops, have gone unanswered.
The IPE board favours the latter, despite a pledge by Nymex to retain the IPE's open outcry trading system.
Its advocacy of a Catholic Relief Bill caused George III to dismiss Grenville in March 1807 after the latter refused to pledge himself never again to trouble the king on the subject.
David Cameron, in his clumsy way, was trying to claim it as the latter when he pledged his abiding love for the Cornish pasty last week.
The latter was a key Conservative pledge in last year's general election campaign.
What is more, even if banks (mostly state-owned themselves) wanted to lend to entrepreneurs, the latter have little collateral to pledge for their loans.
Yet it is already clear what the latter process will show: those pledges are not sufficient to meet the 2ºC goal.
