Sentence examples for practical pledges from inspiring English sources

The best things in the speech were practical pledges: allowing councils to borrow to build; prioritising research and development; a boost for the arts in schools.

Otherwise, the declaration had few surprises to offer, and few specific practical steps pledged.

Their conversion from political pledges to practical realities would provide huge new reductions of trade barriers.

But the practical effect of the pledge remains to be seen.

The Life and Work movement was pledged to practical Christianity and common action by focusing the Christian conscience on international relations and social, industrial, and economic problems.

This document, which has a foreword by Clegg, pledges to "find practical alternatives to the use of closed material proceedings within the justice system, including the provisions of the Justice and Security Act 2013, with the aim of restoring the principle of open justice".

Very practical, and it's a pledge to the world.

Charlie Hebdo plans to publish a 1m print run for Charlie Hebdo next week after cartoonists and newspapers around the world pledged financial and practical support.

Policy pledges were of the practical but unspectacular variety, including a "deep clean" of hospitals to fight killer bugs such as MRSA and measures to reduce paperwork for the police.

That pledge had an immediate practical goal: to keep Turkish troops from entering the region, thus preventing the possibility of clashes between Turkish soldiers and Iraqi Kurds.

The money runs out after the 2010-11 school year, though, and Mr. O'Toole knows a pledge drive is not practical for his community, where 96percentt of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.