Sentence examples for upfront pledge from inspiring English sources

Eurozone ministers received the paper before the 17-hour summit last weekend; but the deal that emerged contained no upfront pledge of debt relief – only a promise to discuss it.

The framework of the Bush administration's approach is to insist on an upfront pledge by North Korea to dismantle its programs, and then to grant benefits -- from security guarantees to economic and energy assistance -- in return for step-by-step progress toward that goal.

There is a fear, shared by both the American administration and democracy activists, that plunking down large dollar pledges upfront would risk funneling money into the hands of institutions, including the Egyptian military, which could misuse or simply siphon it off.

Queremos, launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today, seeks to solve that by creating a platform where fans interested in seeing a certain act could pledge money upfront to get a concert funded.

As part of the deal, Greece got cash upfront in return for pledging future landing fees at the country's airports.

Emergency CPR came in the guise of New Residential Investment which pledged 425 million upfront and a buy-in amounting to a 4.9percentt equity stake.

Among other pledges, Genting offered an upfront payment to the state of $380 million, which it has already paid.

So we just pledged years of tax revenues upfront to buy bad mortgage-backed securities.

The government has pledged to "pay a reasonable share of upfront capital costs", but it is not clear what this will be.

Network executives will be scrutinizing what advertisers decide in the next few weeks during what is called the option period, when advertisers have an opportunity to pull back some of the money they pledged to the networks last spring during the upfront buying season.

In November 2010 McClendon forged a joint venture in which China's state-owned Cnooc paid $1.1 billion upfront for a one-third stake in Eagle Ford and pledged to put up $1.1 billion more to pay for drilling costs.