Sentence examples for years of pledges from inspiring English sources

Yet after six years of pledges of virtue – of borrowing less, exporting more, greater investment, factories not banks – the Westminster classes have led us back to their favourite diversion: blowing hard into a balloon marked "house prices".

President Obama has made seven years of pledges to close the JTF, yet 76 detainees remain today (32 have been approved for transfer but have not yet been moved).

Prospective members undergo up to a year of "pledging" (often inebriation-heavy hazing rituals) before becoming "fraternity men", with all the social benefits that entails.

Anjem Choudary, perhaps the most notorious of his group, was recently jailed in the UK for almost six years for pledging the oath of allegiance to ISIS' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Choudary, perhaps the most notorious of his group, was recently jailed in the UK for almost six years for pledging the oath of allegiance to ISIS's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.

Teenagers furious at the death of Gray after years of perceived mistreatment pledged to defy the curfew order.

Mr. Batlle, the fourth president since democracy was restored in 1985 after 11 years of military rule, pledged to work for a "unified continent".

Not only did he promise five more years of austerity, he pledged to cut child benefit in real terms for another year and dropped any commitment to extra capital investment.

A10 A Pledge of Unity in Bosnia Leaders of the major ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, seeking to unify their country after years of sectarian hatred, pledged to overhaul their constitutional and government system for the first time since the Bosnian war ended a decade ago.

Two years after the quake, several million dollars worth of pledges had been retracted by various donors (a move permissible within the guidelines of the donor conference).

The key elements of the deal include: an ambition to keep the global temperature below 2 degrees, a promise to hit peak emissions "as soon as possible", the establishment of yet to be determined transparency measures, and a review and escalation of pledges every five years.