Sentence examples for no pledges from inspiring English sources

No bold pronouncements or proclamations, no pledges or promises.

There were, for example, no pledges to dispatch ambassadors to Baghdad.

Mr. Annan did not ask for precise amounts from the corporate executives present today, and no pledges were forthcoming.

"I will make no pledges this week other than this one -- that if confirmed, I will remember and abide by all these lessons," Ms. Kagan said.

Ethiopia has appealed to other nations for two million tons of food to feed the hungry, but no pledges have been made, Mr. Othman said.

And it questions why there are no pledges whatsoever to tackle key areas such as saturated fat reduction and responsible marketing (including to children) and promotions.

But is a "No Pledge" rule better or worse than giving politicians the unrestrained ability to go back on your word?

We show that in absence of endowment uncertainty, private and public pledges are associated with lower donations as compared to donations in the no-pledge case: private pledges slightly reduce donations and public pledges reduce them more significantly.

For want of a common descriptive name, they will be referred to as "no-pledge devices".

Under modern economic conditions it is rarely feasible to deprive the borrower of charged goods, as the rise of no-pledge security interests demonstrates.

Magazines sign "No Photoshop" pledges.