Sentence examples for pledge of action from inspiring English sources

She is a sophomore government major from Columbus, Ga., who spent last summer working in Washington for Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican of Georgia, and she campaigned for the council presidency on a pledge of action, not talk.

But Mr. Kelly's pledge of action comes after bipartisan pressure from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who have in recent days demanded that the White House account for Mr. Porter's case and the broader issue of people without permanent security clearances working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Reports, cash and pledges of action are piling up.

In a significant political breakthrough, governments in Durban shunned voluntary pledges of action and turned decisively towards legal commitments.

The next test of his leadership will be when pledges of action are translated into what President John F. Kennedy once called "a long twilight struggle" against a dangerous, unremitting foe.

When Macmillan conducted a similar exercise early last year the capital occupied eight of the bottom 10 positions on the tables but, despite pledges of action the situation has got worse.

Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, welcomed Thursday's pledges of action from Trump administration officials, even as he chided the president for failing to take the lead in confronting Russian election-year aggression.

But human rights groups, 12 of which presented their views here, rejected the report, saying that the government had ignored the pervasiveness of racial discrimination in the United States and that the report had omitted pledges of action to solve remaining problems.

But she notes that "an outpouring of new pledges of action from the world leaders was precisely what Ban intended when he called the summit, the first time such a sizeable group of world leaders have come together to devote a full day to trying to stop global warming".

They came to New York with pledges of action.

Mr Ban has asked that the political leaders come to UN headquarters bearing pledges of action.