Sentence examples for pledging against from inspiring English sources

"There are now children in after-school programs and young people pledging against hate and bias," Mr. Sneden said.

Now they plan on ramping up the fight pledging against other natural gas developments in the state, which they say could bring New York the same negative health and environmental impacts associated with fracking, even if fracking itself is banned.

Only US$88m has been pledged against a target of $500m.

The filing does not say who took out the loan the shares had been pledged against.

Bain specialized in leveraged buyouts, buying control of companies with borrowed money, pledged against those companies' earnings or assets.

"If you get a tweet saying you just got five hundred thousand dollars pledged against you, that sends a message," Jaff said.

Beijing though is increasingly measuring its climate pledges against those made by the US - and not Europe, according to analysts at the ChinaDialogue think tank.

Much of this debt had been pledged against the value of mortgages, making them effectively radioactive in markets around the globe.

Rumours have appeared in the press that Bumi PLC might dispose of its stake in PT Bumi and focus on PT Berau.Added uncertainly hangs over the Bakries' stake in Bumi PLC, which is pledged against a $440m debt facility from Credit Suisse.

If it isn't clear how much of a bank's assets are pledged against secured borrowings — known as "encumbrance" — then unsecured bondholders can't work out their potential losses if things go awry.

It is a simple game of buying the loans at a deep discount and then collecting the collateral pledged against them, but few German banks have had the nerve or the spare cash to play it.