Sentence examples for standard pledge from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush countered today that his standard pledge, at the end of almost every stump speech, was not to restore but "to uphold the honor and integrity" of the presidency.

Boston's organizers will most likely pursue a similar path and promise "green" Games -- today's standard pledge for athletic mega-events with huge environmental footprints.

In a White House speech, Mr. Obama said states that adopted new higher standards, pledged to overhaul their lowest-performing schools and revamped their teacher evaluation systems should apply for waivers of 10 central provisions of the No Child law, including its 2014 proficiency deadline.

He promised that his Red Raiders players would be expected to adhere to high academic standards, pledged an initial $10,000 donation to the school library with a promise of more to come and said that the Texas Tech faithful would enjoy teams that play hard and smart -- most of the time.

In the more than four decades since president Richard Nixon abolished the gold standard – the pledge that a dollar was worth 1/35th of an ounce of gold – there has been no formal link between the value of the precious metal and that of the dollar or any other of the world's other chief currencies.

A group of architects who have social ideals, adhere faithfully to professional standards and pledge to pursue architectural innovation are active in China.

In recent days, the GSMA, operators and the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that manages telecoms standards, have pledged to overcome the blockages, and release the data to researchers in an aggregated, anonymised way to preserve privacy.

By that standard, the Soros pledge is big enough to persuade 463 young economists to take a break from their next shot at getting a paper into a journal and spend some time rethinking economics instead.

Mr Lee has promised to boost living standards, a rash pledge at a time when the world economy is stumbling.

Davis turns apoplectic when his station decrees that he play old New Orleans standards during a pledge drive, songs that he denounces, in cruder language, as the New Orleans "canon".

Speaking at Clinton Community College, the first lady gave a localized version of her standard stump speech, pledging to try to improve the border crossing at Champlain and to try to win federal subsidies for natural gas distribution systems, proposals that were both greeted with sustained applause.