Sentences with phrase «pledged more aid»

The foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has pledged more aid for Iraq, in an attempt to stabilise the increasingly violent country.

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It's just that nobody ever tries to convince me or my children to pledge allegiance to any of those others, or pray to them, or to persecute people in their name, or to let the government be used as an aid in indoctrinating more people into their myths.

Despite receiving $ 7.5 million more in state aid this school year, Schenectady Superintendent of Schools Larry Spring and several Capital Region government officials pledged to continue fighting for even more funding.

Moreover, the Guardian reports that any law mandating that the coalition pays anything more than lip service to its 0.7 per cent GDP aid pledge might be omitted from today's announcement on account of Tory backbench opposition.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a second trip to Puerto Rico since a hurricane devastated the island and pledged more state aid in its recovery process.

«No one is more committed to ending HIV / AIDS than Gov. Cuomo, who with a $ 2.5 billion annual investment, has made New York State a national leader by pledging to end the epidemic by 2020 and providing quality support services to those impacted by the disease,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in an email.

As the Guardian reports today, Bill Gates has warned Theresa May that if the Conservatives go ahead and abandon the UK's pledge to spend 0.7 % of national wealth on aid, its influence in the world will be reduced and more lives will be lost in Africa.

More than 30 countries have pledged aid, but distribution of relief goods has been hampered by impassable roads and rudderless towns that have lost leaders and emergency workers.

Contrary to Lomborg's claim that climate aid will deprive the world's poor of «medicine, mosquito nets or micronutrients,» all of the countries Lomborg mentioned in his op - ed provide significantly more in non-climate foreign aid than what they pledged in climate - related support to developing countries before the conference:

For example, China has used its climate pledge as leverage to get more international aid from rich countries, like the U.S., to help poorer countries adapt to global warming.