Sentence examples for pledge worth from inspiring English sources

Yet that one pledge – worth about £120 to the average household and entirely hypothetical unless there is a Labour government – dominated the agenda for weeks.

Less than 24 hours after the Paris summit ended in a flurry of platitudes, Germany struck again, this time announcing a state-backed guarantee for personal savings deposits in German banks (a political pledge worth more than €1 trillion, the finance ministry estimates).Ireland had been the first to break EU ranks, offering to guarantee deposits at Irish-owned banks, amid fears of bank collapses.

The deposit guarantees announced in Ireland, Germany, Greece and elsewhere since October 1st have been a mix of legislation (worth something) and solemn prime-ministerial pledges (worth very little).

This may prove vital for John Kerry, who has been slow to build up his organisation.ACT alone has taken in almost $20m to date and claims pledges worth almost $60m.

In the event it won pledges worth over $100 billion, a sum that is a quarter bigger than the UAE's entire GDP.

Rather than pay the government for their stakes, the buyers were required to make investment pledges (worth, in aggregate, $1.7 billion) in the privatised businesses.

It is hoping for pledges worth between $6 billion and $8 billion over the next three years.Most of the big donors are waiting until the meeting before showing their hands.

As charities in New York grapple with the enormous needs of victims of the World Trade Center attack, The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund has received donations or pledges worth nearly $6.5 million.

They approached a few record labels for funding without success and even tried raising the money on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, but only secured pledges worth $15,000.

Canonical's Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo campaign to build a smartphone designed for converged computing has fallen considerably short of its target, ending with the fixed funding project receiving nothing at all — which, when you've got pledges worth around $12 million, has got to hurt.

Implementing these pledges, worth trillions of dollars in investments, will require concerted action now by governments, international organizations like ours, civil society and the private sector.