Sentence examples for pledged itself from inspiring English sources

The government has pledged itself to a 3.2% increase in departmental spending (see chart).

Schurz soon joined the new Republican Party, which pledged itself to halting the expansion of slavery westward.

Watching the Watergate hearings, she sits through a commercial in which "a hideous family pledged itself to margarine".

Labour has pledged itself to reform political finance, and is pondering the recommendations of an independent inquiry it established.

In the Anglo-French Agreement of 1860, for example, France pledged itself to reduce its duties to 20 percent by 1864.

The US had pledged itself to a long-term commitment, though its nature would change as and when insurgent violence declined.

("The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack").

Masquerading as an event of political import, it is, in fact, a much-trailed setpiece of mediated theatre in which the entire political class pledges itself to eternal optimism: America's endlessly renewable resource.

By pledging itself to make the dollar buy less, the Fed intends to be reassuring.

Society simply pledges itself to enforce the rights of exclusion that ownership involves wherever those rights happen to be.

(2) Each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto and not to make a separate armistice or peace with the enemies.