Sentence examples for pledges herself from inspiring English sources

In the post-60s England of strikes, bomb blasts, oil crises, cold war escalation, ideological grandstanding and generally impending anarchy, old-fashioned Serena reads Solzhenitsyn and pledges herself against the evils of communism.

To win the freedom to ride with the King's hunt, she pledges herself to Sidhean, a cruel but besotted fairy – but it's not him Ash really wants, it's the King's Huntress … And in January next year, Holly Black, another luminary of contemporary fantasy, will bring readers a faery prince slumbering in a glass coffin, adored both by Hazel and her brother Ben, in The Darkest Part of the Forest.

The battle won, Sigrún tells Helgi that he will become a great ruler, and pledges herself to him.

Ms. Gillibrand has pledged herself to studying the issues to better represent all of New York.

That August, while seeking a divorce, Poplavskaya pledged herself, in her fashion, to a tenor from Kazakhstan whom she referred to as her "social husband".

It was a night ending in tears, with Mme Allende pledging herself to the fight and with the singing of the Unidad Popular anthem.

"It was just heartbreaking," said Mrs. Larson, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and, more to the point, a superdelegate who had initially pledged herself to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And on foreign policy she has carefully refused either to pledge herself to removing American troops from Iraq or to tie America's hands when it comes to the problem of Iran.

She likes the idea of pledging herself to "the principle of free love," though she seems to mean this as a statement of political solidarity, a way of allying herself with a set of values — feminism, gender equality, the erosion of the primacy of marriage.

Having arranged a good marriage for Tzeitel (Sally Murphy) with the town's widowed butcher, Tevye is poleaxed by the news that she won't marry the old man; in fact, she has pledged herself to the gangling, impecunious tailor, Motel (the droll John Cariani).

That was its overwhelming significance to the young Elizabeth when, on 2 June 1953 she stood within the ancient walls of Westminster Abbey, where kings and queens have been crowned for nearly a thousand years, to be anointed with holy oil and pledge herself in the face of God to fulfil the role to which the hereditary vagaries of the British monarchy had drawn her.