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Sentence Examples There was no reason to hesitate or delay the implementation of the election pledges. But it has refused to budge without balancing pledges from developing states to open their markets to industrial goods. I was amazed at the creative energies expended in getting people to give and increase their pledges. However, pledges of documents of title and of bearer bonds are excluded from most of the statutory requirements. Within a few months of his swearing the oath that he was to break in so many ways, the President receded from both these pledges. The court remonstrated that the edict did away with the last vestiges of its authority despite solemn pledges of previous kings. He was part of an administration that sold public assets and ruthlessly broke firm electoral pledges, such as that on the superannuation surtax. Does it seem to you that Americans are particularly fond of symbols and pledges and oaths? However, in light of past practices, it is doubtful whether they will live up to those pledges. But we always made fulfillment of the pledges contingent upon the Magnificent 40's approval of a new and plausible business plan. I find a certain irony in seeing a parent drive their kid door to door to collect pledges for a walkathon. The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts. They also have abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. On it, the smiling inscriber pledges to work closely with him for the betterment of all Californians. Other key pledges include the establishment of crime prevention funds for various neighbourhoods. Concurrently, they were making solemn pledges that they had no intention to do so. President Chirac's team made pledges on reforms which could diminish the high level of overall structural unemployment. The group of Eight industrialized countries have been urged to fulfill their pledges on increasing development aid to Africa. She and 28 other pledges were offered membership in Gamma Phi Beta sorority. By mid week, Merrimac had no pledges on the board, but lighting manager Dan Folding is revving up the forces. Show More Sentences His retractable pledges are offered before an election, ready to be snatched back afterwards. Underfunding the United Nations seems both unwise, and contrary to solemn pledges. Bath rugby players joined them at their Trowbridge offices to take pledges for the charity. But with most big pledges made, further donations were expected to slow to a trickle. On that night, the velodrome will be welcoming donations and pledges for Dave's rehab, prosthetics and education. We wanted to find out whether Britain and the West are keeping the pledges we made. The money is a welcome boost to the donations and pledges of cash already made since the appeal's launch in September. Those pledges could get harder to keep as the governor a Reaganesque triangulation. Meanwhile, the budget at the club has been slashed and the manager left because pledges were not kept. During the show many people of prominence and film and singing stars will be on hand to receive phone calls and accept pledges of donations. Their kisses weren't frantic like they had been before, but rather more pledges of love for one another. Each participant spent a couple of weeks getting pledges of money for time spent in a continually moving rocking chair. In this federal election year, with three marginal SA city-based seats, pledges of support from politicians are flowing in. Although candor is praised over craftiness, history shows that leaders who practiced deceit overcame those that lived by their pledges. The big question in the conference corridors remains whether such pledges are enough to blunt the challenge of the UK Independence party. However, Iranian authorities have accused foreign governments of failing to deliver on aid pledges made after the Bam quake. And MTV pledges to make stars out of some aspiring African musicians, as it launches its first pan-African channel. In an odd way, both the teasers and supporters appear to help youths keep pledges. The chief constable has made pledges in this regard and we want to see those kept. It pledges to end unsustainable fishing by 2015, where possible. Show More Sentences Without the support of Republicans who ran on no-new-taxes pledges, Boehner would have to woo Democrats skittish of Medicare cuts. It supports the restoration of a levy on grain imports from the Black Sea and Baltic regions and pledges to resist any further support price cuts. But New Balance pledges that it will take the hit for any additional per-unit cost that comes from making an all-American shoe. He also pledges to bring the business end of a baseball bat to any country that challenges him. The Supporters' Trust has also appealed for fans who made pledges at the public meeting at Valley Parade last Thursday to send their money in as soon as possible. There have been persistent reports by the Director General of violations of Iran's nuclear pledges, its promises and commitments and its treaty obligations. After the poll is over, the promises and pledges will be shelved and the program of big business will prevail no matter what its impact on working people. A total of 402 households have responded through gifts or pledges and the total amount pledged represents more than twice the target figure of 96,170 euro. Eighty firms responded, and although half expressed a serious intent to meet pledges, they acknowledged they could not give a guarantee about the future. Additional pledges and donations are actively sought and encouraged. I have set up a PayPal account specifically for donations and pledges. These were pledges that, in 1992, won over political centrists like me. He now says he pledges to get 5,000 police on our streets what a joke! A similar observation, however, could be made about tight-fisted conservatives who make campaign pledges they don't keep while local school taxes keep rising. As soon as I heard about it, I started hitting up pals for pledges. Gifts to the university come to us as cash, stock transfers, property, pledges to be paid over time, wills, estates, trusts and life insurance policies. At that time, pawnbrokers purposely lowered the amount of money poor people received for pledges and shortened the time limit required to redeem their receipts. Saudi Arabia mourns King Fahd, a traditionalist in changing times, and it pledges loyalty to Abdullah, heir to a stable government and an unsettled state. Despite the pledges and promises of money, none had actually materialised. The king received the pledges and amitted the battle, and asked borrows of them both, that on the morn they should come and perform their battle and do as they ought to do. Show More Sentences I wish we would have this kind of pledges in all the forgotten and neglected emergencies in Africa and elsewhere, where also hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake. The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government. That statement should set in motion the procedures under the Agreement of April 2003 and the above-mentioned legislation in fulfilment of the pledges made by the Government. With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help. Browder pledges to keep after whatever assets he can identify. The Black local's contract granted equal division of work at the same time that it extracted antilimit and antistrike pledges. We struck a deal with him in 1978 to deliver six pledges to Wales, the most significant being Slate-quarrymen's pneumoconiosis compensation. The party pledges support for minority rights, migrants' rights, and eradicating poverty. But meeting any emissions pledges will be extremely difficult. On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life. They typically made pledges and promises of tribute to the Carolingians, but effectively remained outside Frankish control. These were courtly chivalric games rather than actual pledges as in the case of the fraternal orders. It included pledges to renationalise the National Grid, the railways and the Royal Mail, and create publicly owned energy companies. Its mechanical movement is equipped with a perpetual rotor and the parachrom hairspring pledges increases chronometric precision. Three quarters of the Liberal Democrat's manifesto pledges went into the Programme for Government. The man who pledges his faith, or on his soul, arguably has pawned his soul, and in so doing, has left his salvation to actions of another. He now pledges to keep the levy intact despite calls by the Socialists to abandon it as asocially unfaira. The Jacobite force marched south from Glenfinnan, increasing to almost 3,000 men, though two chieftains insisted on pledges of compensation before joining. While it would seem to have been sufficient to secure the first by just providing sureties, the second ones usually would have required both sureties and pledges. The fact that pledges willingly submit themselves to hazing is neither here nor there and any organization that engages in hazing will lose its charter. Show More Sentences Orkney and Shetland were pledged to James III in 1468 and 1469 respectively, and it is with these pledges that the replacement of Norn with Scots is most associated. Indenture, otherwise known as bonded labour or debt bondage, is a form of unfree labour under which a person pledges himself or herself against a loan. The pledges contained in the Labour manifesto include proposals to increase to two thirds the number of shareholders who must vote for a change in hostile takeovers. Any agreement, therefore, would have to build a framework for exchange rate stabilization and require credible pledges for abstention from competitive devaluations. Pledges to join the European Community and replace short prison sentences with fines would leave modern Tories spitting blood. Pledges for Geraldton's proposed community bank are flowing in and the working group behind the project remains optimistic the bank will become a reality. Examples from Classical Literature All this time, I, in my confusion, was bobbing and murmuring pledges of service. He is not in the least amused by jobbery, by bad service, by broken pledges. The comandante pledges himself, as a hidalgo, that you shall not be harmed. But I think it, at this conjuncture, my duty to declare that I will give no pledges. When it failed, all sorts of people were left with these unredeemed pledges in hand. But the kappa Upsilons were having quite a time with their pledges. But when one digs beneath the flimflam and the verbal pledges, the recent Camp David Summit delivered few tangible benefits. The cases of the Marina and Arabia put the German pledges to a test. By these arts, La Pola fulfilled most amply her pledges to the Liberator. It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it. Offices which are but pledges that we are expected to redeem. No pledges that I had ignorantly made to such scoundrels could bind me. Not inconsiderable, too, were the outward pledges of his victory. Ruth received with reluctance these pledges of his undesired affection. Monsieur de Montcalm pledges his word for our safety, and I have ordered the men to withdraw a little, in order to prove how much we depend on his assurance. They are faithful pledges of the respect we bear to the memory of our ancestors and of the tenderness with which we cherish the rising generation. Daphne, trying desperately to rebuff the arrogant Apollo, turns herself into a laurel tree, whereupon he remorsefully pledges to water it forever with his tears. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pledges? Words that rhyme with pledges What is the adjective for pledges? What is the noun for pledges? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words pledgers pledger pledgee Pledged pledged Pledge pledget pledgets pledging pledgor pleiad Pleiades 7-letter Words Starting With p pl ple pled pledg pledge