Sentence examples for pledged and the from inspiring English sources

He said about $45 million in assets remained, with $17 million committed or pledged and the rest to be committed shortly.

There is a gap between the emissions cuts countries have pledged and the reductions needed to keep the world from dangerous levels of climate change.

But then the president reflexively pledged (and the vice president followed up with the same promise on Sunday) to restore ravaged neighborhoods and homes in Queens and on Staten Island to the way they were before Hurricane Sandy.

The deal also paves the way for action to address the "emissions gap" between the voluntary emissions cuts countries have already pledged and the reductions experts say are needed to effectively tackle climate change.

All of the activists have been refused bail, despite bail securities being pledged, and the head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, offering in an open letter to Putin to come to Russia as a human bail guarantee ahead of trials.

Environmental campaigners said it threw a lifeline to efforts to get a deal to tackle climate change but there was still much work to do, in particular to close the "gigatonne gap" between the greenhouse emissions cuts countries have pledged and the reductions needed to limit temperature rises to no more than 2C.

Pledging — and the humiliation and bullying that go with it — can no longer be the price of entry.

While in his 80s and 90s, he continued his longtime environmental activities, founding Earth Pledge and the Nurture Nature Foundation.

Almost all the developed countries have announced the amounts they are pledging and the total has indeed reached $30bn.

G.S.: So if someone wins the pledged delegates and the popular vote, they should be the nominee?

The original stated that European donors and Belgium had pledged $82m and the US $5m.