In the secret treaty Santa Anna pledged that upon his return to Mexico he would do everything he could to see that the Mexican government adhered to the public treaty.
Here, one finds less emphasis upon rational analysis and logical argumentation than upon pledged community membership, trans-generational authority, obedience to divinely-sanctioned standards, and, in some cases, an overt suspicion of intellectualism together with an emphasis upon the necessity of divine aid for moral transformation.
That estimate might even have been lower than the actual turnout: According to Facebook, 4,000 people pledged to descend upon the small town in southern Georgia.
Trump has pledged to do both upon taking office.
Speaking in Warsaw at the conclusion of a security summit meeting with European leaders, Mr. Obama said the United States had suffered "a tough week," but he pledged to try to build upon good will among protesters and police officers alike.
Who would have thought that six months later it would be happening?" Chris Nowinski, a co-director of the Boston University research group, said that 10 other professional hockey players, almost all of whom played in the N.H.L., had pledged to donate their brains upon death.
One Monday, I voluntarily and unthinkingly stacked seven-hundred-plus pages of dense but neatly justified federal type upon my desk and pledged to read it all.
Smith pledged to repeal the Trade Union Act 2016 immediately upon taking office and to outlaw exclusively foreign recruitment.
Upon taking office in 2009, Mr. Obama pledged to close the prison at Guantánamo within a year, but the effort faltered amid Congressional opposition.
