After two weeks of soaring speeches, pledges of allegiance, and flag-waving in Tampa and Charlotte, things might feel a little boring.
After weeks of stonewalling, Merkel pledged today to move quickly to shore up the common currency, while voicing her exasperation with Greek profligacy.
In the first "school days" of his campaign -- he promises one every couple of weeks and pledges to continue them if he is elected president -- Mr. Gore is using the novelty of a presidential candidate's spending an entire day in school to draw attention to his commitment to education.
And in webcomics, where the Order of the Stick book was categorized, the number of pledges per week, on average, has doubled.
In recent weeks they have issued a series of pledges offering its cities and regions greater freedom from Whitehall's diktats.
The Labour leader's keynote address at the party conference was short on policy but, as many of his shadow cabinet said afterwards, it would be unrealistic to have a detailed platform of pledges just two weeks after being elected leader and five years from the next general election.
As President, Obama has rightly noted that too many Americans are already skipping college or dropping out, even without economists having advised them to do so; within weeks of the Inauguration, he pledged to increase the national graduation rate, which is significantly lower than that of many other developed nations, including Canada, Japan, and Korea.
In documents delivered yesterday in Rome by the Met's lawyers after weeks of negotiations, the museum pledged to return the vase, known as the Euphronios krater; 15 pieces of Hellenistic silver; and four other vessels from the Classical era to Italy in exchange for long-term loans of other prized antiquities.
A few weeks ago, we delved into the world of pledges that the members of the GOP field were being pressured into signing.
"In a couple of weeks," she said, "we got four million dollars' worth of pledges".
