Sentence examples for pledged against from inspiring English sources

Only US$88m has been pledged against a target of $500m.

The filing does not say who took out the loan the shares had been pledged against.

Bain specialized in leveraged buyouts, buying control of companies with borrowed money, pledged against those companies' earnings or assets.

"If you get a tweet saying you just got five hundred thousand dollars pledged against you, that sends a message," Jaff said.

Much of this debt had been pledged against the value of mortgages, making them effectively radioactive in markets around the globe.

If it isn't clear how much of a bank's assets are pledged against secured borrowings — known as "encumbrance" — then unsecured bondholders can't work out their potential losses if things go awry.

"There are now children in after-school programs and young people pledging against hate and bias," Mr. Sneden said.

Beijing though is increasingly measuring its climate pledges against those made by the US - and not Europe, according to analysts at the ChinaDialogue think tank.

Now they plan on ramping up the fight pledging against other natural gas developments in the state, which they say could bring New York the same negative health and environmental impacts associated with fracking, even if fracking itself is banned.

Barack Obama during a visit to Africa in July also pledged action against the traffickers.

Mr. Dorner pledged revenge against Los Angeles police officers in a manifesto he posted online, in which he also claimed that racism in the department had led to his dismissal.