Among the amendments that Mr. Reid had pledged to attach to the bill was an immigration measure that would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
Mr. Brownback, meanwhile, pledged to attach his bill, or parts of it, as an amendment to other legislation, and tonight tried to do so by inserting into a terrorism insurance bill a provision that would prohibit patenting of clones.
Leahy has pledged to attach that piece to immigration reform legislation, which will come before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.
Since then, more than 130 countries have associated themselves with the accord (some of the poorer ones, it is said, coming under explicit pressure from donor nations to do so), and many have made pledges about their future emissions, and have attached those pledges to it.
Almost any funding source for public broadcasting — taxpayers, corporate underwriting, listener pledges — comes with strings attached.
It pledged to review the performance targets attached to the long-term incentive plans (Ltip) that had proved contentious.
This is well in excess of the nearly $500m Mr Tsvangirai said he had obtained in pledges of various kinds during a tour of Western capitals.There is much uncertainty about all of these offers of money, not least the extent to which they are a repackaging of existing pledges and what conditions have been attached.
In return, the country's leftwing government has pledged not to roll back austerity measures attached to the rescue, and must submit, before the end of Monday, a list of reforms that it plans to make.
American military officials pledge that the assistance comes with no strings attached, and that American forces will leave as soon as the aid mission is over.
The orchestra called the pledge "transformational," but there are plenty of strings attached, as is not uncommon in the philanthropic world.
It agreed to do so, however, only with strings attached, demanding that the state and counties pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to Grady.
