"In the March 2013 budget, the coalition government honoured the UK's long-standing pledge to spend 0.7% of gross national income as aid from 2013.
Meanwhile, the government reshuffle not only removes the Ministry of Gender Equality that had been created in 2008 but also breaks Mr. Zapatero's long-standing pledge to have as many women as men in his cabinet.
The sense of injury among non-Shias is powerful, as is the urge for March 14th to exploit for political advantage Hizbullah's breaking of a long-standing pledge never to use its arms in internal squabbles.
However, Mr Abe also yesterday re-iterated Tokyo's long-standing pledge "never again to fight a war" and said that an inadvertent conflict between the two countries – which have no high level diplomatic hotline – would be disastrous.
The hunters' hope is that if the Tories win a majority in 2015, David Cameron – who comes from a hunting family – will honour his long-standing pledge to repeal the act.
The top rate fell from an average of 31.3% to 28.8%.…but not too muchIn Britain the Labour government has abandoned its long-standing pledge not to raise the top rate of income tax and imposed a 45% levy on those earning more than £150,000 a year.
The wind will never move you!' " The remarks came in response to an interview on Friday on Israel's Channel 2 television in which Mr. Sharon said he no longer considered himself bound by a long-standing pledge that Israel would refrain from harming Mr. Arafat.
Perhaps the most interesting development, money-wise, has been the retrieval from the long grass of the long-standing pledge to ditch the "hated" council tax, and replace it with something better related to the ability to pay.
However, the successful applicant will have to settle for a smaller salary than the £671,000 remuneration package earned by Mr Thompson, as part of a long-standing pledge to cut senior management costs at the corporation.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today made good on his long-standing pledge to tackle regulations established in the last administration designed to protect the distribution of internet content.
