"To make the pledge" means to formally promise or commit to doing something. It could involve vowing to support a cause, fulfill a responsibility, or abide by certain rules or principles.
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Mortgage lenders, for example, need you to
make any pledge on your home as collateral for your loan.
Surely a Liberal leader would
n't make a pledge and then do the absolute, exact opposite?
I guess people had already
made their pledges for the digital copy and just didn't / couldn't up their pledge.
By making a pledge today, you are showing that there is a demand for menstrual cups and that women want more choices about what goes in their bodies.
She did
make a pledge during her speech, though, to raise enough money to compete with the incumbent.
The companies
making pledges as part of today's launch represent more than $ 1.3 trillion in revenue in 2014 and a combined market capitalization of at least $ 2.5 trillion.
There was minimal progress on climate finance for developing countries, with several European
countries making pledges totaling US$ 6 billion over the next three years.
So we need your help - to sign up yourself,
make a pledge if you can, and to get as many others as you can to sign up to the campaign.
We can see that it is not a wise thing to
make a pledge based on someone else's ability to pay back a loan.
While some of the Climate Leaders participating companies
only made pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, others have achieved their stated goals.
The way we've done that, beyond this bus tour, for the last two years, is to
make the pledge more personal.
The commitment was made in 2014 and thus far only six of the 28 countries that
made the pledge meet the goal.
At the end of each day children and adults
alike make a pledge to improve the way they live their lives.
In what was disclosed in a statement on Thursday, by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, he said Buhari
made the pledge at the anti-corruption summit in London.
Only 20 % of the regular worshipers in this welcoming church
make pledges of financial support.
US Consular, John Bray,
who made the pledge while speaking in Lagos, said Nigeria plays a vital role on the world stage.
The
president made the pledge in Accra on Sunday at a durbar organised by the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area at Jamestown in honour of the President and his wife.
The governor
made that pledge under pressure from the left - leaning Working Families Party in exchange for an endorsement.
Teach in the Now
Lets make a pledge to adopt a now mentality, and leave the delay tactics to the bureaucrats.
The President
made the pledge while signing bill to establish University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta into law at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Michigan has its first tight end recruit for the 2016 class as three - star Sean
McKeon made his pledge for the Wolverines...
Following four - star DE Ron
Johnson making his pledge to the Wolverines over the weekend, the Camden, New Jersey product updated his Twitter page to the below edit:
Alabama received a big - time commitment over the weekend, as five - star defensive tackle Kendell
Jones made his pledge for the Crimson Tide.
After making a pledge that he would not renew J - 51 without getting significant improvements in the rent laws, he just gave that up entirely.»
The Vice President
made this pledge when he called on the family at Burma Camp in Accra on Wednesday, May 31, 2017.
And then I've
just made a pledge to myself that I'll never make a movie that doesn't have January Jones in it, so obviously she had to be in it.
Acting on the idea of «ungluing» a book using crowdfunding to remove any licensing concerns, readers
makes pledges toward individual book campaigns.
So if you've got room in your heart for a dog, just like Franny, who is desperately in need of a loving home — then
simply make the pledge to «adopt, not shop» for your next best friend, and save a life today!
As more and more
people make the pledge to Make it Possible, pressure on supermarkets and smallgoods producers is forcing them to act.
On a positive note, the IUCN and WCMC, which released the report at the second meeting of the UN Intergovernmental Forum on Forests in Geneva this week, point out that 22 countries have
already made a pledge to protect a minimum of 10 per cent of their forests by the year 2000.
Realtors made a pledge to uphold the valued guiding principles of CREA and we need to familiarize ourselves again with the letter I for integrity.
In other words, plans for the expansion had been drawn up and agreed upon before
Trump made his pledge; simply moving forward with the project does not, in their view, breach their commitments to avoid pursuing new foreign investments or moving forward on pending deals.
In response, most
supermarkets made pledges to halve their food waste, but despite almost 10,000 people asking stores to take action, Asda, Lidl and Morrisons did not agree.
First minister Alex Salmond told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: «This so - called vow that has been in the Daily Record, I suspect it's been called a vow because the last time one of these
leaders made a pledge and signed the pledge was the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg when he signed a pledge that he wouldn't have tuition fees and then promptly put them up to # 9,000 for English students in England.»
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Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»
Not only did Davis and his mom wear Michigan gear at a camp, but the four - star out of Hyattsville, Maryland continues to put out Michigan - related images on Twitter: Davis has said that he will
likely make his pledge on signing day, so his recruitment is far from over.
Mack made his pledge to the Buckeyes in front of the Ohio State coaching staff at the RAS Camp in Fort Wayne.