We can expect this administration less to tread new ground but rather to pledge to do things more effectively.
Rather than pledge to destroy it, a commitment that made large-scale U.S. military action inevitable, why didn't Obama take the more cautious approach of containing ISIS inside Iraq, beefing up its opponents, and waiting for it to collapse?
Sensing the shift, Mr. Luckett, one of the Institute's interns, has opted to join the virtually all-white fraternity system that dominates the campus's political and social life, rather than pledge with a black fraternity.
The worst include the bland, rather boastful pledge card politics revealed to this newspaper, with their "crackdowns", fiddly new laws and suspiciously specific claims, some of which are immediately challenged by statisticians.
Rather than pledge federal money for poverty relief, the administration is asking Congress for legislation that will "cut taxes on hiring and investment in areas designated as Promise Zones" in order to attract businesses and create jobs.
Rather than pledge to donate his extensive collection of contemporary art to the new institution — a move that some viewed as inevitable, given that his name was to be on the door — Mr. Broad said he had decided instead to keep it in his private foundation.
Plus students won't get any formal qualification on graduating from the program — rather the pledge is they'll have the skills employers are looking to hire for.
Rather than pledge his fortune to one of his two foundations one personal, one via Free, funding charities for education and the disabled hes legally bound to hand down his billions; his children will shovel 45% of what they receive over to the state.
Rather, he pledged to support U.S.C. however he could.
But she has now found a youth church group, and rather piously pledged her honesty.
