pledge
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Andrés E. Chait to pledge a turmoil-free opening of school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
A U.S.-backed operation carries more weight than Tokyo acting alone, and the pledge of further action will give speculators pause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Killer has started a crowd fundraiser, which has so far seen more than 450 supporters pledge over £7,500 to save the shop.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Phayom Raksa solemnly recited a pledge that touched on the teachings of the Buddha, and mentioned Thailand's king and the well-being of the nation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
To anyone who questioned the effectiveness of the loyalty oaths, he replied that people who really did owe allegiance to their country would be proud to pledge it as often as he forced them to.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Tokyo pledges that Japan will become "the world's most-friendly country for developing and utilizing AI".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Officials have since promised stricter gun laws, but previous pledges have failed to prevent repeated shootings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
When Kennedy ended up violating those pledges, Cassidy disagreed with him from the sidelines but could do little else.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Founders appear at centenary celebrations and sign pledges to “common prosperity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
As the Courters kept their pledges to me, my faith in others expanded.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, has pledged to spend 30 billion euros, equivalent to about $35 billion, by 2030 on satellites and other space assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Addressing common criticisms, he pledged to keep electricity prices low by building its own energy-generating infrastructure wherever Meta invests and to restore more water than it uses in the watersheds it operates by 2030.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The provincial mining chief also pledged to tackle any corruption, and ensure the "mineral resources of Badakhshan will be utilised properly and for the benefit of the people".
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
In that proceeding, Verizon pledged to “further California’s public policy goals of diverse supply chains and workforces, including a $10 million partnership with the California State University system,” the PUC said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
In exchange, supplicants pledged their votes, helping the Democratic aldermen who filled the city council to fend off their Republican opponents.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Anutin responded by pledging to introduce a new firearms control law.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Despite the setbacks, Modi dominates national politics, and his government has sought to get ahead of the crisis, pledging legal reforms and swift punishment for those involved in exam paper leaks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has abandoned his predecessors’ hints, called “forward guidance,” pledging to let the data talk instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Unfazed by past failures, Zhu stepped down from his CEO role at GigaDevice in 2018 to become the CEO of CXMT, reportedly pledging to take no salary until the company was profitable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
I was there watching and wondering how this ritual went and I reminisced back to when I was a freshman pledging for this sorority.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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