Sentence examples for pledging war from inspiring English sources

Young French Arab teenagers from the poor suburbs chanted slogans pledging war and martyrdom in the name of both Palestinians and Iraqis and against Israel.

Mr. Chávez mobilized his armed forces in response to the raid, pledging war with Colombia if it tried a similar foray into Venezuelan territory, where both the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and a smaller Colombian group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, operate along the border.

Coe and Bubka have pledged war on the drugs problem and to fight moves to cut any of the 47 athletic events from the Olympic programme to make way for new sports.

Warren Buffett, who vetted Bill's philanthropic plans, pledging his war chest to Gate's charitable crusades, once said you pay a high price for a cheery consensus.

William Beveridge, whose 1942 report laid its foundations, pledged a war on the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.

Four decades after US president Richard Nixon pledged a "war on cancer" to beat the disease cancer cases are still on the rise.

The president of Chad has pledged "total war" on Boko Haram, at a summit in France to discuss the kidnap of around 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

In a rare interview with Time magazine in April 1998, Mr. Wan spoke extensively of that rivalry, saying of Mr. Ng that "fate will not be kind to him" and pledging a "beautiful war".

Latham focused his campaign on education and health care reform, and he adopted a hard-line stance against Australia's involvement in the U.S.-led Iraq War, pledging to remove Australian troops from the conflict, which even prompted a rejoinder from U.S. Pres.

But it warned the offer shouldn't be taken as a sign of weakness, pledging that the war would grind on indefinitely if U.S. troops remained.

In November, Mr. Beah was named UNICEF's first Advocate for Children Affected by War, pledging to give a voice and hope to children whose lives have been scarred by violence.