U.S. and Japanese envoys have said they plan to continue climate aid next year, without pledging concrete amounts.
It is impossible to win a nomination for national office without pledging allegiance to the unions on vouchers.
From the start, Krein had said that the journal would aim to capture the populist spirit that helped make Trump President, without pledging fealty to Trump himself.
Instead, the summit is likely to conclude with ringing calls for "smart growth" policies and jobs creation in an attempt to placate the markets, public opinion and Belgian trade unions, without pledging any of the means to do so.
That means, unless Trump is able to attract a significant number of unbound delegates – those who previously supported other candidates or who were elected without pledging to support a candidate – the Republican convention in July will start without a presumptive nominee.
The Bush administration, making use of a provision of the new antiterrorism law, warned foreign diplomats this week that their nations could lose all American military assistance if they became members of the International Criminal Court without pledging to protect Americans serving in their countries from its reach.
Cable, satellite and Internet providers can operate without pledging public service, and that worried Parker.
It goes without saying that in a world without tax pledges and filibusters, it would be in everyone's interest to negotiate a sensible alternative to the fiscal cliff in the lame-duck session; indeed, it should have been done before Congress left town.
Without those pledges, the International Monetary Fund was wary of releasing a new portion of aid promised in its first loan a year ago, and European leaders were loath to come up with new financing.
Greek officials have said their government will not be forced to impose more cost-cutting measures in return for the money, a sticking point with Germany, which has resisted giving aid without firm pledges to control costs.
Returning to normal is impossible without renewing pledges of basic rules and commitments – maybe renewing the Helsinki accords (the same as those that guided us out of the cold war, but including real enforcement mechanisms this time).
