The government in Pakistan, already shaky, has pledged to support the United States, resulting in progressively larger anti-American protests.
But as a third party with a recent history of shaky tax pledges, it is incumbent fairly or unfairly on the Lib Dems to get their numbers right.The only issue on which the Lib Dems enjoy a lead over the other parties is climate change, according to a Populus poll released on September 15th.
With alternative sources of income, fewer communities would be willing to harbour pirates.Donors keen to advance shaky security gains pledged around $1.5 billion to Somali reconstruction last year.
Late on Monday, the French, German, Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers expressed "grave concern" about violations of the shaky ceasefire, but pledged to continue dialogue.
If the Fed allowed Lehman to pledge its shaky collateral to the discount window "we might get a reprieve," one Lehman banker said.
Mr. Jonathan also pledged to strengthen the shaky peace in the turbulent Niger Delta, where militants and thugs battle for control of oil, and to reinforce the government's faltering amnesty program in the region.
All of them understand, in broad strokes, that soft money is less regulated and more easily abused than other contributions, even if they are shaky on the technicalities of the candidates' pledge.
Greece might also, ministers mused, change the rules of euro-zone governance, to the benefit of all Europeans.Three months on, the first two of these pledges are in tatters, the third looks shaky and the fourth is a bad joke.
His pledge to bring back "worse than waterboarding" threatens to undo the shaky coalition against torture, especially in a GOP Congress, of the late Bush and Obama administrations.
Since both Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Sharif sit atop shaky governing coalitions, it took political courage for them to make their pledges.
As Afghanistan's interim leaders basked in the pledges of aid in Tokyo today, events at home underscored how shaky this country remains.
