Sentence examples for pledged to cost from inspiring English sources

This month's extravaganza in Brazil, which was pledged to cost the ill-resourced country nothing, has seen state spending on stadiums alone of £2bn, with another £9bn on infrastructure.

It also pledged to cut costs by another $1bn, suggesting further job losses could be on the way.

Under a turnaround plan announced in January 2001, Chrysler pledged to cut costs by $8 billion through 2003.

Mr. Zetsche pledged to cut costs, and started by eliminating 26,000 jobs.

More ominously, he pledged to "cut costs to the bone" at the channel, citing his track record on making savings at the BBC.

RadioShack Chairman Leonard Roberts Leonard Roberts pledged to cut costs and take other measures to boost profits.

Wallace pledged to cut costs, but season-ticket money is critical.

But he said it would take three long years to mesh the two giants together, and he pledged to cut costs only 10%.

It hopes for a big boost to revenues from its new deal with LCH.Clearnet and has pledged to cut annual costs by €60m ($80m) in three years.

There is no research justification for this – but Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has pledged to cut DLA costs by 20% – and its overall fraud rate is just 0.5%.

Mr Prodi had earlier pledged to cut unit labour costs by five percentage points.