"It was a verbal pledge," said Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, whose members met with Regal officials last year.
Mr. Lauer asked for a handshake, a verbal pledge, any clear agreement to his challenge before time ran out on the panel.
Exhorting fellow Arab League members to back their verbal pledges of support for the Palestinians with money, the emir said "I hereby ask you to approve the formation of a fund that supports Al Quds with a capital of one billion dollars.
About $400 of that has actually been sent in, while the rest is all just verbal pledges.
Similarly, actions of a certain sort for example, stepping forward when volunteers are called for can, in the appropriate context, count as a promise no less than a verbal pledge can.
So far, there is no evidence that the group has any actual connection to the militants in Iraq and Syria, beyond a verbal pledge of allegiance.
As soon as the official pretext for NATO dissolved in 1989, NATO was expanded to the East in violation of verbal pledges to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mayor Villaraigosa made a verbal pledge to progress the processing of rape kits in Los Angeles and to help end the back log.
In an recent interview, the gang council leader said he came up with the idea of having rival gang members sign a peace treaty that would codify verbal pledges they had made since January.
The son of former NFL and Louisiana-Monroe linebacker Steve Foley, Robinson will head to Tuscaloosa to play with good friend Cameron Sims, a wide receiver who recently gave his verbal pledge to the Tide as well.
The Tory leader branded the surge in hate crime "unacceptable," on Tuesday and pledged that his government would do more to crack down on the escalating incidents, which include physical attacks, verbal abuse, criminal damage, and harassment.
