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Quotes About Pledged

Japan will help vulnerable developing nations make progress on emissions. In fact, we pledged assistance of about $16 billion over three years from 2013 and met this goal in about a year and a half.
~ Shinzo Abe
I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.
~ Lucas Papademos
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
~ Thomas Starr King
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.
~ Marvin Ammori
The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...
~ Bob Schaffer
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.
~ Nat Hentoff
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
~ David McCullough
ISIS's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, reportedly told his American captors as he was released (we briefly detained him during the Iraq War), "I'll see you guys in New York."5 And now an ISIS spokesman has pledged to raise the black flag of jihad over the White House.6
~ Jay Sekulow
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.
~ Stafford Cripps
the value of the pledged property is vitally dependent on the earning power of the enterprise.
~ Benjamin Graham
Friendship is a thing sensed inwardly as much as a thing pledged openly. One feels friendship and becomes bound by it.
~ Terry Brooks
Sookie: Eric, when I'm back to being myself, I'm going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you. Eric: Darling, you can nail my ass anytime, he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. Pam rolled her eyes. You two, she said.
~ Charlaine Harris
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
~ J. I. Packer
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
~ Josephus Daniels
As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect the Constitution's authority, and the specific rights and protections it guarantees to every American citizen.
~ Reid Hoffman
After he "urged his way" to the voting table, Lincoln followed ritual by formally identifying himself in a subdued tone: "Abraham Lincoln."91 Then he "deposited the straight Republican ticket" after first cutting his own name, and those of the electors pledged to him, from the top of his preprinted ballot so he could vote for other Republicans without immodestly voting for himself.
~ Harold Holzer
By 2023, she pledged, GM would have at least twenty electric models on the market.
~ Daniel Yergin
In Hartford, Connecticut, after calls from religious organizations, theater owners pledged that Fatty's face would never again be seen on their screens.
~ William J. Mann
But that did not strike me as immoderate. It was a society that was pledged to austerity that was probably the most prone to going on binges. So, philosophically, the name didn't fit. But
~ Paul Theroux
I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.
~ Abigail Spanberger
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourse
~ Patrick Henry
to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virginís name was Mary.
~ Luke 1:27