A meeting in Paris in December of Sri Lanka's aid donors ended, unusually, without any pledges being made for the next financial year.Sensing Sri Lanka's growing isolation, Mrs Kumaratunga broadcast on January 8th specifically to the people of the north-east, where most Tamils live, and which has been the main cockpit of the war.
It was found that 82% (n = 41) of them donated eyes without any prior pledging.
Many analysts are skeptical that the I.M.F. will provide any fresh funds without a pledge from all the election candidates to continue a tight fiscal policy and to try to keep inflation low.
If the top dozen or so medical journals refused to consider publication of any research results without a pledge from the authors to make the raw data available for follow-up analysis, the problem would disappear.
Nor is he going to teach "without reward" or pledge to comport himself "in a godly manner".
President Bush left a summit conference here today without a pledge from Mexico to support the American resolution in the United Nations Security Council to disarm Iraq.
Last week, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, shifted her stance, saying the company should end the lockout without a pledge from the union to provide three days' notice before going on strike.
In another case of a pledge without any subsequent action, USDA announced its intention to approve a new rule to protect downed calves, after a separate HSUS investigation of a slaughter plant in Vermont--more than two years ago--documented fully conscious calves being severely abused and even skinned alive.
Its fans say it is public television without the pledge drives.
Without the pledge, this case runs, and the faith and loyalty it bought on the Tory right, Mr Cameron would have found it much tougher to win support for his stance on the NHS and civil partnerships, for his refusal to promise tax cuts or for his changes to the way the Tories select their parliamentary candidates.
