Sentence examples for pledges coming from from inspiring English sources

And during a two-day, grass-roots fund-raiser on WRBO in October, another $70,000 was raised, with many of the $5 to $25 pledges coming from residents of the surrounding economically depressed neighborhood.

The march to $1 billion has been led in large part by backers from the U.S., where Kickstarter is based, with some $663 million in pledges coming from that region.

Usually such pledges come from corporations like Time Warner, which backs the orchestra's park concerts and radio broadcasts.

Indeed, some of the smaller pledges came from far-flung countries like Mali, which said it would give $200,000, and Montenegro, which pledged $10,000.

The French development minister, Annick Girardin, said that many of the pledges came from developing countries, and had brightened prospects for a climate treaty in December.

Many pledges came from people who had already backed an average of 15 other Kickstarters on the site.

Some of those pledges came from existing groups which went on to re-brand themselves as new IS "provinces", or wilayat, such as the Egyptian Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and Algeria's Jund al-Khilafah.

But the most outrageous pledges came from the governments of India and China -- $1 million dollars -- each!

The global fund set up to channel money to developing countries to combat dangerous climate change stands practically empty, with the largest pledge coming from a country that has no obligation to provide money at all.

Another $1 million pledge came from Eric and Patricia Hotung.

For the first time, those taking the Buffett-Gates "Giving Pledge" come from outside America, according to the announcement on February 19th.