The government imposed a 21 percent sales tax on ticket sales and, despite government pledges and lobbying efforts, companies are not eligible for tax deductions for sponsorship contributions.
Join ERA and Patricia Arquette by taking the Fair Pay Pledge and support efforts to reform federal law with passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act and to strengthen California law with passage of the California Fair Pay Act (SB 358).
I'm sorry that we've taken every opportunity to undermine the "Humanitarian Pledge" and the efforts of the one-hundred-twenty-plus nations rallying for a negotiated ban on nuclear weapons.
All people of good will should stand behind President Obama and pledge their efforts, time and money to finance clinics and hospitals across America that would provide safe medical care, giving these young women a choice: to keep the babies or hand them over for adoption.
You start with multiple individuals and organizations that have created independent tables, with their seats filled by leaders who would feel marginalized or underutilized in "big table" events and pledge efforts.
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, met this week in the Gaza Strip and pledged "maximum efforts" to sustain a cease-fire.
Even the president of China's Prison Association this month acknowledged that Chinese prisons are "too isolated from the outside world" and pledged renewed efforts at reform.Indeed, the Ministry of Justice is already claiming good results in the testing and education programme it launched for prison guards in 1999.
BRUSSELS — European Union regulators announced a ban Monday on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives.
Indeed, it pledges even stronger efforts to safeguard wetlands, purchase open space and enforce environmental laws.
Despite the security forces' concerted and ruthless efforts, and pledges by President Assad to start a "national dialogue" on reform, the uprising continued unabated in almost every part of the country.
