So we're pledging to fill no more than a thimble in 2016.
"If we stand and put our hand over our heart," Coates told me, "then we're pledging allegiance to freedoms that we're not receiving".
We're pledging not to give a penny more to any federal candidate who does not support replacing special-interest funded elections with citizen-funded congressional elections, a hybrid of public funding and Obama-style small donations.
We're pledging not to give a penny more to congressional candidates who don't support the Durbin-Specter bill to fundamentally reform our congressional elections so they are citizen-funded, not special-interest funded.
We are pledged to an inwardness, a deep probing focus on who and where we are".
It's about the people of New York, and the mission that we are pledged to.
Tony Blair: We have to see what money we can put forward for transport when we come to the comprehensive spending review, we are pledged already to the 10-year plan.
Most of these allies - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Jordan, the Gulf States - we are pledged to protect from attacks of jihadist terrorists who also seek to overthrow those regimes.
Distinguished Delegates, this is our last regular gathering of the Board in the 20th Century -- and the dwindling calendar is at once a reminder of the urgency of our work, and of the vulnerability of the many millions of children we are pledged to serve.
Distinguished Delegates, last week brought fresh reminders of the urgency of our mission, of the vulnerability of the many millions of children and women we are pledged to serve - and of the risks faced by UNICEF staff members and our UN and NGO colleagues, especially in the humanitarian emergencies that have become so much a focus of our work.
