Sentence examples for pledge them from inspiring English sources

Banks can package them into investment products, or pledge them as collateral for an interbank loan.

Parents perhaps have struggled the most mightily to comfort their children, assure them they are safe, and pledge them an unfettered Halloween.

In the meantime, the best banks may be able to do is issue the bonds to themselves and then pledge them as collateral to the European or Portuguese central banks in return for cash.

The central bank system in Europe is akin to letting the government of California issue bonds, pledge them as collateral at the San Francisco branch of the Fed, and then get fresh dollars to pay for its budget deficit.

Moreover, not forbidding indirect purchases should be seen primarily as a means of permitting banks that buy government bonds to pledge them as collateral for refinancing operations, while bearing the full investment risk.

"If a company has valuable assets that are not pledged to a bank, why not pledge them to their pension scheme if that means they don't have to put their hands in their pockets to put large amounts of cash into their retirement scheme," said Charles Cowling, managing director at JLT Pension Capital Strategies.

If his friends happened to see him in the company of the "wrong" woman, he pledged them to secrecy.

After a particularly energetic song and dance performance by a group of local children, Mr. Kasukuwere pledged them a gift of $50.

His less provident successors had pledged them in a few cases to the local territorial princes and had thus lost the right of taxation.

"What sets Treasuries apart is the fact that holders can turn them into cash at a moment's notice either by selling or pledging them," notes Wrightson ICAP, a broker.

As the staggering destruction of wealth in the stock market has recently revealed, executives can sometimes appear to own shares in a company, but have actually pledged them as collateral for a loan.