Sentence examples for meet a pledged from inspiring English sources

Paul McConnell of Wood Mackenzie, another research firm, has argued that for China to meet a pledged 40% reduction in the carbon intensity of its economy by 2020 would require a lot more gas than currently expected.

Earlier this year, the company said it could not meet a pledge to raise the fuel economy of its sport utility vehicles by 25percentt from 2000 to 2005.

The calls had brought their own share of sad news: a loyal donor who had just lost a job and could no longer meet a pledge.

In Portugal, lawmakers approved a tough 2011 budget to help the country meet a pledge to cut the deficit to 4.6 percent of gross domestic product next year, from 9.3 percent in 2009.

Mr. Montoro said the 2013 budget guaranteed that Spain would meet a pledge to the rest of the euro zone to cut its deficit to 4.5 percent of gross domestic product next year, from a target of 6.3 percent this year.

The report said the European Union would need to combine solar power from Spain with wind power from the North Sea if it were to meet a pledge made last summer to reduce emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

The move by both Tory incumbent Boris Johnson and Liberal Democrat hopeful Brian Paddick to meet a pledge of openness about income piled pressure on Labour's Ken Livingstone to follow suit.

He is worried that the European commission has failed to meet a pledge to halt biodiversity loss by 2010, and recently warned "the loss of biodiversity is a global threat that is every bit as serious as climate change".

Trump was still a property mogul and reality television star in September 2014 when the Nato summit in Wales agreed that countries would meet a pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence by 2024.

British retailers have failed to meet a pledge to cut back on supply chain food and packaging waste, with thousands of tonnes of fruit and vegetables, milk and yoghurt thrown away every year, after being rejected for being the wrong shape, size or standard.

And she did the same thing when Todd asked if Trump would send five million dollars to charity to meet a pledge he made in 2012, when he said he'd pay that amount for proof that Obama had been born in this country.