Sentence examples for pledge period from inspiring English sources

In aggregate, stations raised $32 million in the last pledge period in December, said John Wilson, PBS's chief programmer.

Let's hope his segment isn't running during any station's pledge period unless it's trying to raise enough money to go off the air.

Mr. Jennings was one of two pledges who made it to the final round, and he died on the last day of the 10-day pledge period, officials say.

Terrel L. Cass, WLIW's president, and Laura Savini, a vice president, both familiar faces during the pledge period, exhorted viewers to become station members and to buy the tenors' recordings and videotaped performances.

Mr. Lawless died Dec. 13, the final night of pledge period for Sigma Tau Omega, a fraternity banned by Iona in the 1980's for hazing and alcohol abuse.

But Binghamton officials said that their overriding concern was the health and safety of students and that the situation was clear: For the second year in a row, they received an increasing number of reports, mostly anonymous phone calls or e-mails from pledges, friends of pledges or parents, about hazing during the eight-week pledge period.

"There is a whole new set of programs on public television aired only during pledge periods," said Steve Behrens, the editor of Current, a newspaper that covers public radio and television.

The KCET 1997 documentary More Things That Aren't Here Anymore has a segment on Muntz and is broadcast by the station regularly during pledge periods.

One example is Sigma Phi Epsilon's "Balanced Man Program," which replaces the traditional pledging period with a continuing emphasis on community service and personal development.

Many delegates promised that their countries' pledges would continue, and in many cases increase, in the coming pledging period.

Farmers are given up to five to seven months to redeem their pledged crop and sell in the market if they so desire; otherwise the crop is sold to the BAAC and the farmer's loan is paid off at the end of the pledging period.