Sentence examples for states pledges from inspiring English sources

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

But while the law itself clearly empowers Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to waive its provisions, the administration's decision to make the waivers conditional on states' pledges to pursue Mr. Obama's broad school improvement agenda has angered Republicans gearing up for the 2012 elections.

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.

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.

Twelve states and the District of Columbia have signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states pledge to give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.

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.

As in Britain, the American states pledged themselves to a "standards-programme", in which each state devised a system of student-testing, for different age-groups, to measure schools' progress.

Labor's biggest increases were planned in the final two years of the six-year phase-in period, with the previous government offering $2 for every $1 the states pledged.