Sentence examples similar to pledge enforced from inspiring English sources

Pledges were enforced by driving a spike or blade into these figures, some in human form and some animal, including the double-headed dog.

To make credible his pledge to reinvigorate the United Nations and other multilateral institutions, the president should complement his pledge to enforce U.N. resolutions on Iraq with a rededication of American participation in other international regimes.

"I hope that John Ashcroft will uphold his pledge to enforce our laws".

The pledge to enforce more budgetary discipline may increase the risk of recession: the fiscal pact is an austerity pact that will prove deflationary, argue critics.

In the Commons, shadow environment minister Jamie Reed criticised the review for containing no waste recycling targets for England and abandoning Labour's plans to move to a "zero-waste Britain", and accused the Government of doing a U-turn on its pledge to enforce weekly collections.

This one-sided approach is in keeping with Mr. Bush's campaign pledge to enforce existing gun laws, and it avoids picking a fight with his close allies at the National Rifle Association, whose mantra in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary has long been that the nation does not need any more gun laws.

But as Congress gathers for its lame-duck session and confronts a serious set of economic and tax questions that could bring the country to the brink of the "fiscal cliff," one of the lingering questions is whether the pledge — drafted and enforced by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform — will hold up.

Mr. Ashcroft pledged to enforce even laws he disagreed with, including those supporting abortion rights.

Mr. Geithner pledged to enforce Congressional legislation that limits pay at companies receiving government loans.

But then he vowed to support a new bill "explicitly" making waterboarding illegal because Mr. Mukasey pledged to enforce it.

Power companies and government officials have also pledged to enforce safety regulations strictly and to ensure transparency.