Sentences with phrase «new pledges»

This past year was also one of new pledges to end deforestation, many of them by unusual suspects and many of them including encouraging financial commitments.

In fact, it's already added new pledge tiers to entice backers; a $ 25 pledge scores two copies of the $ 20 game at launch.

President Obama on Monday announced US$ 240 million in new pledges from private businesses, schools and foundations across the country for STEM...

On the margins of the negotiations, numerous actions provide encouraging signals, including new pledges by countries, significant policy activity to meet the pledges and increased support for additional complementary initiatives to raise the ambition level.

A trickle of new pledges for Switch launch games also get a look at, including the news that Stardew Valley is canceling their Wi iU edition in favor of the newer console.

Already, three companies are announcing new pledges totaling $ 66 million toward education initiatives: $ 50 million from Bank of America for programs targeting low - income students; $ 15 million from Microsoft Corp. for research into initiatives such as game - based instruction; and, $ 1 million from the Nike School Innovation Fund to improve schools in Oregon.

The average BackerClub project receives $ 1,050 in new pledges from our repeat - backer community.

Labour's manifesto contains new pledges on the minimum wage, rail fares and childcare, alongside policies such as the mansion tax.

Labour is to publish on Friday six new pledges revealing the party's key priorities for a third term in office.

Mesmerized by all the activity, I fell into a 6 - foot construction trench that was inches from the source of the smell: a fire pit where a fraternity was grilling meat to recruit new pledges.

Britain is scheduled to take over the E.U. presidency in 2017, right before parties are scheduled to take stock of their Paris commitments and ready new pledges.

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The analysis shows that aggregate pledges of both public and private finance are significant, at more than US $ 8.7 billion for the period between 2006 and March 2014, but the pace of new pledges slowed after 2010.

Labour plan five new pledges for the General Election campaign.

UNEP News Center: World leaders announced new pledges to restore over 30 million hectares of degraded forest lands today at the UN Climate Summit in New York.

HONG KONG — Instability continued to roil China's stock markets on Tuesday in spite of new pledges of support from the government.

Despite a new pledge by tech firms to do better on this front, there is lots of work to do.

Although first launched in July 2015 with the aim to «radically change the way consumers think and interact on social media,» it wasn't until earlier this year that the platform suddenly went viral with a new pledge to «celebrates people's passions without algorithms, ads, or bots.»

As we mentioned earlier, the accounts of the resurrection appearances of Jesus can themselves best be understood as promissory, in the genre of the appearances and new pledges of fidelity by Yahweh narrated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Several 2017 & 2018 recruits tweeted congratulatory notes to Michigan's newest pledge.

Several of the Wolverines» top remaining targets (one CB and a TE) seemed to have taken notice of the Wolverines» newest pledge.

The new pledge note is a fun and easy way to get involved so why not print it to hand out at work, at home, or with your friends and family?

On education, a touchy area for the Lib Dems to venture any new pledges, he promised to ring - fence spending on children and teenagers «from cradle to college».

«Today's new pledges will enhance and further expand upon those launched three years ago.

The government will make a new pledge to increase the conviction rate for rape today as statistics show it remains one of the most underreported crimes in the UK.

Labour issued a new pledge card at the 2001 election, saying «thank you for helping us build the foundations,» and voters gave Mr Blair the benefit of the doubt against a feeble Conservative Party.

He says he wants the Labour pledges, which will be enshrined in a new pledge card to be revealed tomorrow, to be readily enforceable.

It feels good, this new pledge I have in my life, to steer clear from cruel, cruel brands.

Wanting to ensure the new pledges prove they re worthy, fraternity president J.J. sends them to a deserted warehouse rumored to be inhabited by demonic squatters.

That picked - over sub-genre known as the frat hazing drama (see 2016's «Goat») finds a new pledge in «Burning Sands,» but aside from being set at a black college, this achingly earnest first feature by Gerard McMurray really adds nothing new to the rites - of - passage syllabus.

The Kickstarter for a 20th anniversary Boogerman game has received a new pledge tier.

We're told that the pledges announced today are all new pledges, made specifically in conjunction with the meeting with the president.

Can we have a new pledge level at $ 20 to get the game for two platforms?

New Pledges and Pledge Updates - EVERYONE READ!

This counts for all new pledges as well.

Below we'll take a deeper look at their new pledge.

The new and legitimate issues raised over this energy report are particularly important as a test of the climate panel's readiness to live up to its new pledge to be responsive to criticism as it prepares to release a report on climate and disasters later this year and then its far bigger suite of assessments coming in 2013 and 2014.

Statements from NGOs — and some newspaper headlines — added their own interpretations to this new pledge.

Finally, Parties must ensure that the Adaptation Fund does not dry up because of decreasing CER prices and lack of new pledges to the Fund from developed countries.

Companies worth more than $ 4 trillion have promised to reduce their impact on the world's forests, and more than one - third of the new pledges came just last year, which more than doubled 2013's total.

Their new pledges would deepen those commitments.

The new pledge builds on GM's previous target of using 125 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020, and the company expects to exceed this goal later this year when two new wind projects come online in Texas and Mexico.

(It sounds like they are angry because they thought most of this stuff had been agreed on, but suddenly the developed countries are coming up with new demands, instead of new pledges....).

A new pledge of $ 228 million for gas projects takes the total financing for fossil fuel infrastructure to over $ 1 billion since the Commission's flagship fund for energy infrastructure, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), was launched in 2014.

With this new pledge, Oregon is leading again.

The US's new pledge isn't any more ambitious than its existing commitments were.

The new pledge implies about the same, Climate Action Tracker's analysis suggests.