Indeed we are now proposing a Europe-wide Total Bastard Treaty in which all member states unite in an unprecedented pledge to reject any act of even the mildest fake kindness".
President Barack Obama's announcement that the U.S. will offer an unprecedented pledge to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 17percentt by 2020 at the Copenhagen climate talks in December may seem impressive at first blush.
Add to this the deficit mania that is fueling Republican plans to go beyond President Obama's unprecedented pledge of a five-year freeze on federal spending to call for cuts of as much as $100 billion in domestic discretionary spending.
The UN's chief scientist, Professor Jacquie McGlade, warned this week that Britain's cuts to renewable subsidies put us at odds with the unprecedented pledges made by 150 other countries for the Paris climate change summit in December: she calls it "a very perverse signal".
Even the most cynical campaigners conceded we may have entered a new era of climate-change action in November when America and China, the two biggest polluters, made an unprecedented joint pledge to make concrete reductions in their carbon emissions.
London, 26 April 2001 -- An unprecedented global pledge campaign on behalf of children, led by an impressive array of international personalities including Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and Bill Gates, begins today in London and numerous other locations worldwide.
As part of the Global Movement for Children, an initiative has been launched to secure an unprecedented global pledge campaign on behalf of children, led by an array of international personalities, including Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates.
Then, in a sign of how grim things had become, the Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step of pledging to keep interest rates near zero for the next two years.
But Mr. Obama entered office pledging unprecedented transparency for government operations, and his record has drawn fire from civil libertarians and groups supporting whistle-blowers and press freedoms.
They may talk the talk on climate change, but they're giving the go-ahead for fracking, for a third runway at Heathrow (which means the airport will emit the same amount of carbon as the whole of Portugal, and last year pledged "unprecedented support" to the fossil fuel industry after it gave the party massive donations.
The co-sponsors would not be involved in formulating the questions, the officials said, adding that "this nonendorsement pledge is unprecedented and is not being required of any other persons or entities".
