Sentence examples for pledged to combat from inspiring English sources

Ms. Vazquez has pledged to combat poverty in the nation's poorest communities.

Mr Abdullah has pledged to combat poverty, while in January another top official promised that the government would ignore gender, colour and creed when recruiting civil servants.

Experts say that some progress has been made in the 15 years since the Association of Southeast Asian Nations first pledged to combat the problem, after one of the worst forest fires in the region's history.

They announced a new agreement to reduce tariffs on a list of goods identified as beneficial to the environment, and they pledged to combat corruption and protect endangered wildlife.

The four countries, known as the Basic group, called on rich nations to ensure that $10bn pledged to combat climate change was handed over before the end of the year.

Professional psychologists in the region, however, are outraged, pledging to "combat" the "utterly perilous" measure.

In March, pledging to combat the epidemic, he signed an executive order creating the commission led by Christie.

Pledging to combat the endemic corruption that has made his country one of the poorest in Latin America and led American officials to describe it as a haven for Islamic terrorists, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, a 46-year-old journalist, was sworn in as president.

It is firmly pro-European, and its leader said he was prepared to go into coalition with another party as long as it pledges to combat corruption and keep Greece firmly in the eurozone.

More than 14,000 people in Mali have so far signed a pledge to combat circumcision.

He pointed to a new $15 billion American pledge to combat AIDS, the biggest-ever single government commitment to fight a specific disease.