Sentence examples for pledges in which from inspiring English sources

Teenagers who take virginity pledges, in which they promise to refrain from sex until marriage, under certain conditions delay intercourse substantially longer than those who do not make such a public commitment to chastity, according to a newly released study.

Then he recalled seeing Mr. Del Toro in Sean Penn's movie "The Pledge," in which he had a small part.

There is the Susan B. Anthony pledge, in which candidates promise to appoint antiabortion cabinet officers and cut off federal financing to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, in which they abjure tax increases of any sort for ever.

Those four states wrote a pledge in which candidates agreed not to campaign in states that violated the Democratic National Committee's calendar rules.

His performance in "The Pledge," in which he plays a deranged American Indian falsely accused of killing and raping a young girl, is one of uncontainable force.

During the primaries, he recited a loyalty pledge in which he led his supporters in a promise to vote for him.

Among other things, Patrick Henry will ask its students to sign a pledge in which they promise to court and not date.

As recently as 2008, then congressman Dennis Kucinich was kept off the Democratic primary ballot in Texas because he refused to sign a pledge in which he vowed his support for the party's nominee.

Fossil fuel magnates Charles and David Koch have, through Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group they back, succeeded in persuading many members of Congress to sign a little-known pledge in which they have promised to vote against legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an equivalent amount of tax cuts.

That'll be 27-year-old billionaire-13-times-over who last year donated $100m to the state school system of New Jersey, and also signed – along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – something called the "Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time.