Sentence examples for pledged to live from inspiring English sources

There has been an unexpected amount of attention lavished on a man who had pledged to live out his days "hidden from the world".

An economist by trade, he has pledged to live up to Combet's achievements in parliament, without trying to directly emulate him.

Set in a world that is similar but not identical to our own, "Anathem" imagines a modern-day monastic order whose members have pledged to live their lives without computers or electronic technology.

One man and his new wife pledged to live on bitcoin for the first three months of their marriage.

I knew what she meant but I didn't pause to examine it, consciously pushing analysis away and pledging to live in the moment.

I would make a pledge to live a more conscientious life.

"I hereby pledge to live out the highest values of this land," they said, and ended, none too modestly, with: "I am the future of this nation.

In recent days, Mr. Booker has made the rounds of the national media with his pledge to live on food stamps for a week.

"We had a pledge, to live together and die together," Khalid, the professor's brother, said as he started to cry.

But remember: the AK party swept to power 19 months ago on a pledge to live up to its name and put a stop to sleaze.Mustafa Bayram now awaits trial for helping his son escape.

"TODAY I burned a sweet potato …with supplies dwindling it was eat around the severely caramelised root vegetable or go without," blogged Cory Booker, Newark's mayor, on day five of his week-long pledge to live on food stamps.