Sentence examples for pledged to clean from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rajoelina pledged to clean up the government when he took power.

We pledged to clean up the abuses in the earmark process, and we kept that promise.

Yet he pledged to clean up the N.S.C. with the same cockeyed resolve that he had brought to Afghanistan.

But he pledged to clean up politics, push forward with economic recovery and streamline the way the government operates.

Many of these investigations are still unresolved, but in Italy in 1989 and Britain two years ago, Coca-Cola pledged to clean up its act in Europe.

Mr. Chen and other officials talked up attractions like a new airport and an upgraded port, and they pledged to clean up Guangzhou's blighted environment.

Emma Donoghue ("Room") pledges to clean up her own: "I'm going to clear my two double-stacked shelves of Books to Be Read if it kills me.

Mr. Suozzi, a Democrat, ended decades of Republican rule in Nassau when he was elected two years ago, pledging to clean up mismanagement and waste.

At the same time that Pruitt has been pledging to clean up some Superfund sites, he has been dismantling important Superfund regulations.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who was interior minister at the time and is now president, arrived the next day in this hard-luck Paris suburb, famously pledging to "clean" the area with a K?her, a brand of high-pressure hose.

Barclays' new legal counsel, Bob Hoyt – who worked in George W Bush's White House – was in New York to lead an urgent inquiry into the allegations, which come as Jenkins has been pledging to clean up Barclays.