The arrangements, set out by China's party-controlled parliament, the National People's Congress, were needed because of a pledge to grant the territory a "high degree of autonomy" and eventually "universal suffrage" when it took over from Britain in 1997.
"Mitt Romney is 100percentt dedicated and committed to repealing Obamacare," Pawlenty said, citing Romney's pledge to grant the states waivers from the federal law.
Companies have voluntarily pledged to grant licenses to such patents to other companies on so-called fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, or FRAND licenses.
The Syrian opposition has pledged to grant the country's two million or so Kurds cultural and political rights in exchange for their support.
B10 In Europe BUSH ON U.N. -- President Bush pledged to grant the U.N. a "vital role" in postwar Iraq, but defined that as providing food, medicine and aid.
To offset this danger, Joseph signed the second Treaty of Altranstädt with Charles, pledging to grant greater religious freedom to Protestants in Silesia in exchange for Charles's promise not to join France.
Then she received Kristalina Georgieva, the EU's aid commissioner, who left Myanmar after seeing her and the authorities "encouraged" by the government's pledges to grant humanitarian workers greater access.That was followed this week by a visit from Derek Mitchell, Barack Obama's new special representative to Myanmar (which America, like Miss Suu Kyi, still calls "Burma").
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged to grant African countries $10 billion in low-interest development loans over the next three years, to establish a $1 billion loan program for small and medium-size businesses, and to forgive the remaining debt on certain interest-free loans that China previously granted less-developed African nations.
Field could therefore potentially hamstring the British by refusing to attend the conference until they pledged to grant his country full independence.
Sweden is the only country pledging to grant asylum to all Syrians, and even Australia – a particularly unfriendly place for refugees – committed to welcoming 500 of them.
Speaking at COP21 in Paris this December, Schneider pledged to grant researchers access to what Ron Sznaider calls the company's "emerging rural climatological record" as part of the UN's Data for Climate Action campaign.
