took the pledge
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No one took the pledge, either staying silent or listing off their companies' talking points.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021
Greg McNeilly, spokesman for Dick DeVos’s company, the Windquest Group, said the secretary’s husband took the pledge to mean he should no longer contribute to candidates in federal races.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017
Fisher is one of more than 1,000 "locavores," self-styled concerned culinary adventurers, who took the pledge last month to eat nothing--or almost nothing--but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home.
From Time Magazine Archive
To those who took the pledge, the council offered bumper stickers that read: SAY NO TO OPEC.
From Time Magazine Archive
In decorating a boy, Cleophas Breckenridge, with a badge, after he took the pledge, he said: "Sonny, that is the best thing you will ever take."
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn
