Sentence examples for pledge of respect from inspiring English sources

Whether and how soon it can join the continent's political and economic club depends in part on its conforming to the bloc's joint pledge of respect for human rights for all citizens.

The government bolstered its credibility with the protesters by returning to the airwaves a private television station shut down Sunday in what seemed to be a blatant violation of pledges to respect freedom of speech.

TUNIS — Tunisia's interim government abruptly shut down the country's oldest and most popular private television network on Sunday evening, in an apparent violation of its pledges to respect freedom of expression after the ouster of the authoritarian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Al Gore and Joe Lieberman pledge to respect the results of this court-supervised vote counting.

At athleteally.com, nearly 11,000 people have signed an online "pledge" to respect others "regardless of their perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression".

Will the opposition participate fully and pledge to respect the outcome of the vote (which they should do, even though the contest might well end in another victory for Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai, the party which, to the horror of the Bangkok "democrats", most other Thais seem to like)?

Each Episcopalian makes the pledge to respect the dignity of every human being when we recite our baptismal covenant.

Despite an earlier joint pledge to respect the "values of democracy" and the "right to peaceful protests," ruling party and opposition leaders failed to compromise on a solution to end the unrest.

Tendetza was a prominent critic of President Rafael Correa's government, which he accused of making a U-turn on its pledge to respect nature and indigenous lands.

"President Duterte should understand that passive or active government complicity with those killings would contradict his pledge to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law".

They endorsed a "federal democratic" Iraq and adopted a "code of honor" pledging to respect the "Iraqi people's choice of the regime they want".