Sentence examples for qualified pledge from inspiring English sources

Will the loser deliver a qualified pledge of support for the winner, offer more lavish words of praise or perhaps utter the e-word?

Mr Osborne's main giveaway was a qualified pledge to freeze council tax for two years a nice enough break for hard-pressed households but hardly a magisterial take on the credit crunch.

They note how he qualified that pledge in a recent interview: the Tamil parties must "realise that what we refused to give Prabhakaran, we won't give to others".Tamil politicians believe the government intends to curb Tamil nationalism through intense security and population transfer.

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But on television, Mr. Arafat also qualified those pledges by saying Israel's punishing attacks on Jenin, Hebron and Nablus in the West Bank had weakened his security forces so much that he doubted they could carry out his orders.

"Short of using violence," he added, qualifying that pledge.

The consensus is that he left himself wiggle room by qualifying his pledge.

Mr. Obama has long qualified his withdrawal pledge, but in the campaign the emphasis was on his intent to end the war.

But the leaders of the demonstration said late today that they would work to prevent further violence, though their pledge was qualified.

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The White House has pledged to replace Kushner with someone equally qualified.