Sentence examples for states pledge from inspiring English sources

In January 2013, the UN's 1st "Pledging Conference" for Syria saw 43 member states pledge US$1.5 bn towards humanitarian efforts.

The National Popular Vote Initiative is an interstate compact under which participating states pledge their Electoral College votes to the national vote winner.

This goes much further than the European convention, which only gets round to the subject of elections in its additional protocols, in which signatory states pledge to ensure "the free expression of the people in the choice of the legislature".

The term may refer to a political claim to exclusive control, which other nations may or may not recognize as a matter of fact, or it may refer to a legal agreement by which another state or states pledge themselves to refrain from interference within the sphere of influence.

So far, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, which have a combined total of seventy-four electoral votes, have enacted the N.P.V. bill, under which the compacting states pledge to cast their electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote.

The plan agreed on Sunday, known as the Lima Call for Climate Action, had all UN member states pledge to take action on climate change. .

All too often national policies and practices lag behind states' pledges.

Within the region, US Secretary of State John Kerry has been rushing from capital to capital putting together a coalition of Sunni states pledged to fight Isis.

Saudi Arabia and Western and gulf states pledged more than $4 billion in humanitarian aid to Yemen at a conference on Wednesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The eight representatives and three senators who joined Mr. Richardson, all with active or defunct weapons plants in their districts or states, pledged to try for quick action.

Ban was visiting Gaza two days after donor states pledged $5.4bn in aid for rebuilding after the summer's devastating Israeli offensive.