Sentence examples for rather than pledging from inspiring English sources

And now we learn that, with an election coming, the political parties are wooing the perpetrators, rather than pledging to defeat them.

Rather than pledging to balance the budget immediately, he said that he would allow deficit to rise modestly over the next three years, and argued that the additional government spending would stimulate growth and tax revenues, bringing the budget back to balance by 2019.

But rather than pledging to feed hungry people only if you download something from Facebook, the company is doing it on the down-low, asking its employees to help out, in its own cafeteria.

Rather than pledging a profound respect for personal liberty, Charles Koch has explained his strategy in more narrow terms.

Rather than pledging allegiance to land mass because they happened to be born there, football fans operate a system of results based micro-patriotism.

Rather than pledging allegiance to land mass because they happened to be born there, soccer fans operate a system of results based micro-patriotism.

With a few notable exceptions, those who agitated for the Iraq war avoided military service and have made rather than pledged their fortunes from this war.

But as the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, said in his press conference today, this bond-purchase initiative is a break with the ECB's history, in the sense that the bonds are being bought rather than pledged to it as collateral for cheap loans.

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.

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.