At the same time, Washington insiders are impressed and surprised that it was a union leader — Mr. Rivera — who forged a coalition including giant drug makers, the health insurers, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association that helped secure their pledges to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in costs.
Before getting to Washington, Mr. Blair had done very well, securing pledges of large increases from European Union members.
| The PICC Group "has wound back expectations for its proposed Hong Kong listing, securing pledges from a group of mostly domestic investors for its up to $3.6 billion I.P.O.," Reuters reports.
Mr. Bustani had succeeded in securing pledges of support from only a few member states, officials said, among them, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and his native Brazil.
Corley came to the rescue, securing pledges of $2 million each from Johnson & Johnson and Brentwood Venture Capital, where he leaned on partner William Link, his former boss at Chiron.
To sidestep money concerns over body cameras, Soboroff has taken his pitch private, securing pledges from some high-profile Angelenos, including $250,000 from media mogul Casey Wasserman and an undisclosed amount from DreamWorks co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
(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.
A year later, securing the pledged aid has proved difficult, and many of the recipient countries — particularly those in the midst of political transition, like Egypt — are still waiting for the promised funds to arrive.
He climbs into Nally's car after securing her pledge to email her bosses the next morning to encourage them to donate food.
