Sentence examples for major pledges from inspiring English sources

Other major pledges will be to double free childcare to 30 hours a week for three- and four-year-olds and extending the right to buy to housing association tenants.

Steve Webb, the party's pensions spokesman, led the protests and said that his leader had "overdone the despair" in warning that major pledges, such as an end to tuition fees, may have to be delayed.

Since the foundation's emergency appeal last summer to raise a $15 million cushion for operating expenses, it has collected only a little more than $1.5 million in major pledges and donations, a sum that amounts to mere life support.

The most ambitious speech was the 2009 inauguration address, delivered on the steps of Capitol Hill before a record crowd of some 1.8 million, which contained at least 20 major pledges on everything from education to the economy.

In his first major pledges on economic policy since ousting his predecessor and party rival Enrico Letta last month, centre-left leader Matteo Renzi targeted those Italians who earn less than €1,500 a month, as well as outlining measures to help businesses.

However, there is no expectation of any major pledges of cash at Tuesday's meeting.

Various University officials send letters of appreciation for gifts, pledges, and major pledge payments.

Abolishing the controversial overtime working law was a major pledge in François Hollande's successful presidential campaign.

Its first major pledge, for $50 million, came last month from UPC Wind, a Massachusetts-based wind power company that would place some two dozen windmills on the land.

Word that the Juilliard School had lost financing for a prized musical training program for black and Latino children has brought forth numerous offers of help, including a major pledge from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation of Los Angeles, school and foundation officials said on Friday.

A major pledge of the Trump Administration was cutting red tape and boosting America's infrastructure.