Sentence examples for pledge aside from inspiring English sources

The business lending pledge aside, Santander's targets include raising its 123 customer base from its current 2.4 million to 4 million, cutting its cost to income ratio from 54 per cent to below 50 per cent and raising its return on equity from 8.9 per cent to between 13 per cent and 15 per cent.

This afternoon, Mr. Taylor reiterated his pledge to step aside, but said nothing about when or for how long.

To seething local parents, the new administration seemed to be backtracking from its pledge to set aside half of the seats for community children.

When I was born, in 1944, rather late in my parents' youth, they both essentially took the pledge and set aside craziness forever for my sake.

To deflect such perceptions, Mr. Gore included in his glossy, 191-page plan a pledge to set aside $300 billion as a hedge against overly optimistic fiscal projections.

Many of the governor's ideas, which followed up on his campaign pledge to toss aside the conventional way of doing business in Albany, would indeed reshape the way the state operates.

The army has pledged to step aside by mid-2012.

Mr. Christie also pledged to set aside $10 million to improve the state's data-reporting system for students over the next two years to more accurately assess classroom success.

Mitt Romney, a Republican with high-caliber corporate credentials, had run for governor pledging to sweep aside barriers to business and act as the state's "top salesman".

There was a mood of conciliation as the rivals pledged to put aside differences in order to rid Washington of its "bad habits" and solve the "urgent challenges of our time".

The ministers' council and Citizen Action also accuse the bank of reneging on a 1997 agreement with Citizen Action in which it pledged to set aside $4 million for investment in Newark, including home mortgages, housing development and loans to small businesses.