Several Senate Democrats pledged a rigorous confirmation review.
But the Sunni turnout, high in some cities like Mosul, low in others like Ramadi, appeared to be insufficient to defeat the new charter. 1 Illegal Logging Rises in Amazon Timber harvesting is booming in the Brazilian Amazon despite new, more rigorous regulations and repeated pledges by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to crack down on those pillaging the world's largest tropical rain forest.
The F.C.C. chairman, looking stern, pledged "ruthless and rigorous scrutiny" of any Comcast bid to merge Disney-ABC-ESPN into a huge DisCast.
The results, which are the most rigorous analyses yet made of pledges submitted to the UN last month, will increase pressure on rich countries to make far deeper cuts in negotiations over the next year.
In an editor's note written nearly a year after Mr. Raines's departure, The Times faulted itself for being "taken in" on Iraq and pledged more skeptical and rigorous reporting.
MoveOn promptly deleted the images, issued an apology, and pledged to employ more rigorous screening standards.
Many Thais reportedly shifted their chatting from Facebook to LINE as the military pledged to conduct more rigorous online snooping.
There had been reports of nightly hazing involving "rigorous exercise, alcohol consumption, paddling and 'waterboarding' where the pledges were being hosed down," a police report said.
He pledged that the county would conduct more rigorous background checks and psychological tests before hiring correction officers, and he said that the guards would be required to attend more classes on sexual abuse and harassment.
ECB vide-president Vítor Constâncio has pledged that the stress tests will be rigorous: We will uphold the reputation of the ECB... we will not put it at risk.
Inhofe has pledged to subject the proposed rule to "rigorous oversight" when Republicans control Congress next year.
