Sentence examples for private pledge from inspiring English sources

Ailment: Eating too much Cure: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark However impervious you like to think you are to the new year's resolution bandwagon, we suspect you're not above making a private pledge to reduce your waistline.

From there, he went to Kentucky, where he gave a candidate a private pledge that he would heavily pressure lobbyists to contribute less to his Democratic opponent than they had intended.

Unless he has received a private pledge of Mr. Barkley's vote, the Republicans would have to rely on a Democrat to switch sides, and none have yet publicly stated an intention to do so.

When I asked Mr. Bloomer about the legality of signing and then upholding a stance on the basis of a private pledge if it interfered with the pledge to the Constitution of the United States, Bloomer said, "We knew there would be problems associated with signing that pledge".

Under these circumstances, taking private pledges of reform at face value is a risky proposition.

After his death, local officials made effusive speeches and private pledges vowing to promote Mr. Ismail to first lieutenant and build a statue in his honor.

Despite aggressive fund-raising, private pledges for this facility have reached only $5 million, so it will be built on borrowed money.

Separately on Friday, Mr. Obama called for a renewed effort to combat hunger and malnutrition in Africa, despite tough economic times, announcing $3 billion in private pledges to increase agriculture and food production.

And the momentum of public opinion has been gradually eroding the opposition in parliament, to the point where Australian Marriage Equality now claims there is a slender majority in both houses, when private pledges of support are counted.

"Overall we've had about 2,000 individual pledges and raised £110,000," says Roberts. "We received everything from private pledges of £2,500 to a little boy who wrote in to say: 'Can you give my pocket money of £4 to the manager so that we can get promoted?'".

We show that in absence of endowment uncertainty, private and public pledges are associated with lower donations as compared to donations in the no-pledge case: private pledges slightly reduce donations and public pledges reduce them more significantly.