(His pledge to self-finance his campaign is also falling by the wayside).
Groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, another human rights nonprofit, are dismissive of the Saudi pledge to self-investigate and have instead called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes.
It found that, overall, daily exposure to the ads declined but the percentage among companies that had pledged to self-regulate was higher than those that didn't.
Shale gas production is exempt from the Clean Water Act and the industry has pledged to self-monitor its waste production to avoid regulatory oversight.
This scrutiny and the pledges to self-regulate, which will be announced at a Federal Trade Commission event today, are an attempt to show corporate responsiveness to growing concerns about childhood obesity.
And America's future is hampered if we don't have a responsible center-right conservative party, offering market-based solutions and a spirit of compromise to solve our biggest problems — not a radical right-libertarian-Tea Party coalition that is leading the G.O.P. around by the nose, purging unbelievers and signing loyalty pledges to self-appointed conservative ayatollahs.
President Bush's speech on Monday night kicked off a critical five-week period in which the White House must not only make good on its pledge to return self-governance to the Iraqi people but also convince the American electorate that the benefits of deposing Saddam Hussein have outweighed the costs in blood, money and battered prestige.
The government's wine cellar escaped the austerity axe in 2011, with a pledge to become "self-financing".
If we've been too dependent on our significant other for affection, we pledge to be more self loving.
Trump's promise to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out criminal and rapist "illegals" was anticipated by Mitt Romney's earlier pledge to force the "self-deportation" of undocumented immigrants – which made Romney's later denunciation of Trump somewhat duplicitous.
But he and Jonathan can't predict the outcome of the ongoing protests versus Hong Kong's police... and really versus Beijing's rulers who broke their 1997 pledge to allow Hong Kong self-determination.
