Sentence examples for pledges range from inspiring English sources

Sodexo's pledges "range from weak to utterly meaningless", a spokesperson says, describing it as a publicity stunt from a company "which naturally wants to win more contracts from the government and public bodies".

Pledges range from the simple, such as making sure a child's teddy bear is right next to them when they wake up in recovery, to the innovative, such as helping terminally ill children understand and relate to the cycle of life by growing and nurturing seeds on the ward.

The pledges ranged from re-establishing a "solid and trustworthy" financial system to new political and fiscal reforms.

The Labour leader's stone monolith bears the Labour party logo and Mr Miliband's signature beneath six election pledges ranging from "a strong economic foundation" to "homes to buy and action on rents".

Those taking the pledge range from the entire Tory front bench to Tottenham Hotspur football club.

When the National Minimum Drinking Age Act increased the drinking age to 21 in 1984, it effectively relocated boozing from the public spaces of bars into private homes, where a world of pre-gaming, hazing, keg parties and pledging (ranging from the bizarre and sadistic to the downright criminal) became normal.

The organisation, which encourages government accountability and transparency, asked members to bring a new flagship commitment to the summit, resulting in pledges that range from Mexico's promise to be open about what it spends on natural disaster relief to the UK's world-first in creating a central registry of company ownership.

Turkey's new Justice and Development Party government, which swept to a landslide victory in Nov. 3 elections, has vowed "zero tolerance" of torture and pledged a range of human rights reforms to meet European Union standards for membership.

In its latest move, the central bank will offer to lend Treasury securities for 28 days to financial firms that pledge a range of other securities, including bonds backed by risky mortgages.

In return, Athens pledged a range of structural reforms: cracking down on tax evasion, raising the retirement age to 63 and a half from 61 and a half, limiting early retirement and opening the so-called closed professions whose guilds grant limited access to newcomers.

The Bloody Oyster pitch offered 11 different pledge options ranging from £20 to £1,500, the rewards starting with an invite to the bus launch event to a private hire of the bus and catering for up to 40 guests.