Sentence examples for the pledge given from inspiring English sources

The difficulty here is that the pledge given to the National Union of Students not to vote for any increase in tuition fees in the coming parliament was in truth a pretty grubby act designed to garner some student votes.

On Saturday, the Democrats removed any explicit mention of a "tax increase" from a draft of the pledge given to them by the county executive, Thomas S. Gulotta, Mr. Gulotta said.

But the parliament will still give Mr Dewar headaches; and the worst may yet come from rows within his own party over who gets to sit there.The source of the difficulty is the pledge given by the Scottish Labour Party (and by the Liberal Democrats) that at least half of those elected to the Edinburgh assembly should be women.

Ministers want to make the pledge, given to the UN, legally binding.

But it will be a struggle to uphold that pledge, given the maddening nature of his opponents.

The parliament in Kiev asks the US and UK - as guarantors of the security pledges given to Ukraine in 1994 - to use all measures, including military, to stop Russia's "aggression".

Some collectors, recognizing the chancy nature of their pledge, gave works provisionally -- not to be relinquished until the art has a home to go to.

"The SPLA should be given credit for following through on the pledge it gave to Carol Bellamy".

This is the pledge I give you today".

We're already having people signing the pledge to give up their S.U.V.'s.

Likewise the pledge to give Salonika to Yugoslavia does not appear on the document.