Sentence examples for pledge in the from inspiring English sources

They even sent the Make-A-Wish Foundation a fraudulent $250,000 pledge in the name of Mr. Davis.

The president has yet to fulfill his pledge in the State of the Union speech to provide a rationale and justification for these targeted killings.

The sales occurred despite a pledge in the coalition agreement which said the Government would "seek to protect school playing fields".

He technically fulfilled that pledge in the last quarter; Disney's video game and Web business turned an operating profit of $9 million after 16 consecutive quarters of losses.

The Prime Minister has always maintained that the UK should keep the deterrent, and replacing Trident was a Conservative manifesto pledge in the last general election.

Chinese companies have also been using copper as collateral for their hard-currency loans: "buy, store, hedge and pledge" in the words of one trader.

You will recall that his subsequent apology was not for betraying his word, but for making a foolish pledge in the first place.

Long suspect on the Republican right, George Bush faced a crippling 1992 primary challenge after abandoning his "no new taxes" campaign pledge in the White House.

Bush partisans still blame Mr. Mitchell for forcing President George Bush to abandon his "no new taxes" pledge in the 1990 budget deal.

A constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget was a central pledge in the Contract With America that helped Republicans win control of the House of Representatives in 1994.

Three years ago, in a comment on Cameron's referendum pledge in the Bloomberg speech, Tony Blair likened it to a comedy western of the 1970s.