Sentence examples for making a firm pledge from inspiring English sources

Challenged four times by Michael Fallon, the Conservative MP for Sevenoaks to rule out tax rises after the election, Mr Brown refused to be drawn into making a firm pledge.

"Today I am making a firm pledge: on coming to power, Labour will set up a national investment bank, and a network of regional banks whose aim is to help mobilise £500bn into the economy and transform Britain," McDonnell, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, said.

"I can make a firm pledge," Mr. Obama said in September 2008.

Campaigners say that with an election likely next spring and the forthcoming G8 presidency, there might never be a better time to make a firm pledge.

Ryanair has made a firm pledge to buy 100 of the 737 Max 200 planes, with an option on another 100, and O'Leary said Ryanair had never failed to take up options on aircraft it ordered.

Obama promised repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would never raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 per year: "I can make a firm pledge.

By this time I'd made a firm pledge to keep money out of the relationship -- a promise I've kept to this day.

Amid all the talk of change, however, Abramson made a firm pledge never to alter one thing: the paper's beloved crossword puzzle.

Mr Murphy is understood to have argued that making such a firm pledge could backfire for the party on May 7 as it attempts to claw back tens of thousands of former Labour supporters from the SNP.

The 10 foundations that have made a firm commitment have pledged far less than $200m, each putting in $750,000, for a total of $7.5m.

In March, the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership made a "firm commitment" to the scheme, pledging £50m of the £125m expected to be raised locally.