Sentence examples for secured a pledge from inspiring English sources
But the French trade minister, Nicole Bricq, secured a pledge that the talks, at least initially, would not cover movies, television shows and other audiovisual products.
He secured a pledge from a local shipping company to take a container full of supplies to the island, once they were collected.
Little more than a week ago, with the Taliban preparing to flee Kandahar, Mr. Khan secured a pledge of loyalty from Zabed Jaleel, a Taliban commander.
At last year's summit, ASEAN leaders had called publicly for her release, and secured a pledge from Myanmar's prime minister at the time, Khin Nyunt, to move towards democracy.
The Mets' owners settled their case for $162 million and, in return, secured a pledge that the trustee would drop his claims that they were "willfully blind" to signs that Mr. Madoff was perpetrating a fraud.
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Gaza City with rival Palestinian factions, including the radical groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and secured a pledge that they would try to maintain the calm between Palestinians and Israelis.
(Obama's team decided to reëstablish the connection, but only after securing a pledge from the A.B.A. that the group would act quickly).
Fine Gael remained in power only by securing a pledge from Fianna Fáil to abstain from key votes until 2018 in return for policy concessions.
July: Sepp secures a pledge of labour reforms to bring about "positive social change", and pins the slave state stories on the "racist" British media.
In an unprecedented step, lenders are expected to focus on the nation's staggering debt load – at over 180% of GDP the largest in Europe – with Athens keen to secure a pledge that a write-down is in the offing.
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