Sentence examples for rules and pledges from inspiring English sources

In a hostile world, they erect rules and pledges and become hypervigilant about deviationism.

The second: Once in a while, forget the rules and pledges, and eat like a real American; obviously you can't do this every time, but it's an option.

The midcampaign staff review underscores the difficulties Mr. McCain is having in trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his crusades for tighter ethics rules and pledges to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

At Roosevelt's urging, the men drew up a statement condemning brutality and disregard for the rules, and pledged that their teams would hold to it.

Mr. Berdymukhammedov has distanced himself from his predecessor's rule and pledged to turn Turkmenistan, Central Asia's biggest producer of natural gas, into an open and investor-friendly country.

President Clinton signed a charter of partnership today with the Presidents of the three Baltic countries, once among the "captive nations" under Soviet rule, and pledged American support for their aspirations to join NATO.

Last year, Lori Mashburn, the agency's White House liaison, attended two private events hosted by her former employer, the conservative Heritage Foundation, in a seemingly clear violation of federal ethics rules and the Trump pledge.

Today Mr. Tudor, an acolyte of Mr. Ceausescu, blames "enemy" minorities for Romania's problems and pledges to rule "with a machine gun".

That one bidder could have been Google, which showed its hand earlier by publicly stating it would bid the $4.6 billion minimum to support its suggested open access rules (and stuck by that pledge even though only two of its four suggested rules were adopted ).

Democrats say that would be a substantial reworking of the rules and inconsistent with Grassley's pledge to retain the blue-slip process no matter which party captured the White House last year.

Returning to normal is impossible without renewing pledges of basic rules and commitments – maybe renewing the Helsinki accords (the same as those that guided us out of the cold war, but including real enforcement mechanisms this time).