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pledge

[plej] / plɛdʒ /




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He said there should be "proper accountability mechanisms" to hold ministers who breach the pledge of office to account.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nations are lagging behind a pledge to raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity by 2030 from public and private sources, including $30 billion a year in international finance for developing countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

This week, they sent letters to the chief executives of all four corporations asking them to sign the pledge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Support what we do and help us absolutely crush it during Slate’s 30th anniversary pledge drive!

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

Later both brothers will refer to it as a meeting of the minds, of the time they made a pledge to each other.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

But taken together, government pledges would cover only 27 percent of land and inland waters by the end of this decade if enacted in full.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, are asking House members for written pledges that they won’t block midterm winners from taking their seats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The union's general secretary Ian Lawrence questioned government pledges to increase probation staff to deal with the influx of released prisoners, telling the BBC he had "heard it all before".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But whether these governments follow through on these admittedly vague pledges, and whether that results in material change in the Middle East, is at least partly beside the point.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

They shall be pledges of your conduct, to be returned later, if you merit them.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Its premise is that a vampire couple maybe didn’t think it through when they pledged to be together forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

He had also pledged $500,000 to improve the local primary and secondary schools and a clinic.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Myanmar this month pledged "safe and dignified" returns for its citizens displaced abroad.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The U.S., which has pledged $13.5 million for Kenya’s Ebola response, hasn’t said whether non-Americans would be eligible for care at the field hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The governor scooped up the money and pledged his full co-operation together with all the extensive resources of government at his disposal —and he loaned them two Land Rovers.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Now he is pledging $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

With voter anxiety growing, the heads of major AI companies signed a White House accord on September 29 pledging independent audits and board-level oversight of cutting-edge models.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Amazon released a memo from AWS CEO Matt Garman Friday acknowledging local backlash to AI data centers and pledging over $1 billion in additional community investment over five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

James, who is the state's chief legal officer, appeared alongside Hochul at Friday's news conference, pledging to "lead a process guided by the facts and the law".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I tried to justify it to myself by saying that it was only because my friends were pledging, and I didn’t really care that much about the stupid club.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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