The state would not have to back the county's finances with a so-called moral obligation pledge, as proposed in 2011.
A moral authority pledge is not as secure as the state's "full faith and credit," but it would still strengthen the authority's standing enough to lower its borrowing costs by as much as 1.8 percentage points, officials said.
Yes, the United States has an important mission: to stay true to the moral values we pledge to defend at home and abroad.
And to those who celebrate America's successes in striking back at the perpetrators of Sept. 11, one of the salutary things to come from that doleful day was the rediscovery of a world united, of nations near and far that pledged support, moral or political or military, for all that was to be done to avenge the crime.
The Giving Pledge is a moral commitment to give, organizers note, not a legal contract.
What is now required is the understanding that a commitment is a pledge with both moral and practical obligations.
"Kashmir runs in our blood," Musharraf said, and he pledged to continue "moral, political, and diplomatic support" for Kashmir's liberation from Indian rule.
Bucking national trends and citing what they call "a moral goal," District of Columbia officials have pledged to preserve and even expand low-income housing, replacing dangerous projects with new communities that keep both poor and "work force" residents — firefighters, teachers and laborers — in the mix.
Metternich worried how they were supposed to get to Spain, and about French ambitions, but nonetheless pledged (if only moral) support for the joint force.
