So Brexiters will face a choice between maintaining their pledge to withdraw from the single market and so ending the free movement of people, or whether instead to seek what has been described as purgatory – the kind of half-in, half-out arrangement enjoyed by Norway.
Under the stability and growth pact that governs European Union members' fiscal policy, countries have pledged to maintain their budget deficits at less than 3percentt of gross domestic product.
Despite an often fractious relationship during their time in government, the two coalition parties, with a majority in the House of Commons, have pledged to maintain their partnership until the next general election, expected in 2015.
Finance ministers from seven of the world's biggest economies concluded a meeting in the Canadian Arctic on Saturday with pledges to maintain their fiscal stimulus programs, despite rising worries among investors about the mounting debts of some European governments.
One alternative anti-inflation tool that is not apparently being considered, particularly in the GCC, is reining in fiscal expenditure; indeed all the GCC states have pledged to maintain their extensive network of subsidies.
Supporters of the overthrown Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have pledged to maintain their weeks-old sit-in in east Cairo, despite the massacre of scores of their comrades by state officials on Saturday.
The Conservatives talked tough on immigration during the election campaign, and pledged to maintain their cap on skilled economic migration from outside the EU at 20,700 during the next Parliament.
Students, they maintained, should pledge their allegiance to the flag and nation for which so many fought and died.
He conceded that, if his broad approach is approved, then a lively debate and some squabbles would follow among his frontbenchers as they fought to maintain pledges in their areas.
We maintain the pledge to scrap tuition fees, but we've brought that pledge into what is realistically possible over the next half a dozen years.
