Sentence examples for pledged to become from inspiring English sources

Blatche pledged to become a more responsible citizen.

Surrey offered £75 if she pledged to become a teacher.

He pledged to become an advocate and apologized to gay audiences.

Already, a few dozen American cities have pledged to become one-hundred-per-cent renewable.

Yet, this is the same person who, only a year earlier, had journeyed from Hamburg to Afghanistan and pledged to become one of Bin Ladin's suicide operatives.

Or that many huge corporations have pledged to become carbon neutral or 100% renewable-powered across their global operations: Unilever by 2030, and Ikea as early as 2020.

The bank, a leading target of some protesters, has also been flagellating itself recently, pledging to become a more effective poverty fighter.

The union, the largest of the 53 unions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O., announced what it called a 21st Century Initiative, pledging to become one of the most aggressive unions in organizing and in politics.

Pledging to become "the first soldier of Colombia" in a campaign against leftist rebels, Mr. Uribe promises to double the size of the army's combat force and the police and to organize one million villagers to serve as informants, some of them armed.

Rather than ask a judge to order parents' cooperation with services and supervision, [Department of Children and Families] often has troubled parents sign "safety plans" -- words scrawled on a form, sometimes illegibly -- pledging to become better parents.

More than 600 U.S. colleges and universities are signatories of a pledge to become carbon neutral.