Pledges Sentence Examples

The Great Charter of 1215 was a commentary on, rather than a reproduction of, the old accessiop pledges of Henry I.

Nationalist pledges were exacted, and long service as a grand juror was an almost certain bar to election.

Sri Krishna had indeed uttered falsehoods so many times, had broken his pledges, had wives and even ` married ' 16,000 ladies !

The Disney Channel Friends for Change combines these with pledges and initiatives to get kids involved.

This is because a vegan, who pledges to use absolutely no animal products, would not be eating dairy cheese anyway, vegetarian or not.

Officially sponsorship pledges made to schools are completely unconditional and not related to any separate written or oral agreement with any company or organization.

But the Austro-Hungarian government, profiting by the weakness of Russia after the war with Japan, and aware that the proclamation of Bulgarian independence was imminent, had already decided to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, in spite of the pledges given at Berlin, and although the proposal was unpopular in Hungary.

Brown 's version of events has the prime minister reneging repeatedly on firm pledges to step aside during the second term.

Many pledges in the Friends for Change movement are those that parents and kids can do together.

The pledges may encourage your children to speak up, take a bigger role in advocating for change and to involve their schools.

A site counter helps kids see how many others are taking pledges and encourages them to do so as well.

Then, after affirming their pledges, they were then pronounced as man and wife.

Potential members must "rush" a fraternity, and they are referred to as pledges.

While fraternities are evaluating and selecting pledges, the pledges are also making a similar decision about which group is right for them.

The study used data from a federal survey of 11,000 students in grades seven through twelve in 1995, 1996 and 2001. 82 percent of the students who took purity pledges retracted the promise and engaged in premarital sex.

This type of fundraiser involves soliciting support from corporate and individual donors in the form of sponsorships, one time gifts, pledges for monthly gifts throughout the year, and other monetary donations.

In addition to training, all walkers must secure a minimum amount of pledges in order to participate in the event.

All you need to do is ask students to get pledges from their parents for the amount of books they are promising to read.

When a member of the group wears the ring, it again symbolizes commitment, in that the person pledges to be loyal to the group for life.

Pledges are new members who have recently accepted a bid from a particular sorority.

The league pledges to make football fun and affordable for all kids.

He comes to Rivendell at the summoning of Elrond and pledges to protect Frodo and the One Ring on their journey.

But as Dean hung up the phone he had no illusions about the pledges ever coming to fruition.

Pledges were often made where the intrinsic value of the article was equivalent to the amount of the debt; but antichretic pledge was more common, where the profit of the pledge was a set-off against the interest of the debt.

John had been in the habit of taking the children of powerful subjects as pledges for the good behaviour of their parents.

President Salles publicly promised political reform, economy in the administration, and absolute respect for civil rights, and speedily made efforts to fulfil these pledges.

Clemenceau and Lloyd George found themselves between two irreconcilable standpoints - between Sonnino, who claimed the liberal fulfilment of their treaty pledges, with the addition of the port of Fiume, and President Wilson, 'who refused all cognizance of the secret treaties and regarded them as expressly abrogated by the Allies when they accepted his successive notes as the basis of the Armistice.

He was most respectfully received at the camp, but could obtain no definite pledges from the king, who was bent on first coming to Florence.

He believed that the recognition of the prince and the artificial ethnical formation of the principality would be pledges of security for France.

Drawn between various influences, that of Marguerite d'Angouleme, the du Bellays, and the duchesse d'Etampes, who was in favour of the Reformation or at least of toleration, and the contrary influence of the uncompromising Catholics, Duprat, and then Montmorency and de Tournon, he gave pledges successively to both parties.

According to Herodotus he made his doubtful adherents deposit pledges of faithfulness in the temple of Apollo.

The lives of many Europeans were at stake, for anarchy must follow the withdrawal, and it seemed impossible to repudiate the pledges to Toro, or to abandon the Baganda who had fought for the British.

The civil government recognized monastic vows by regarding a professed monk as civilly dead and by pursuing him and returning him to his monastery if he violated his pledges of obedience and ran away.

His speech and tone, however, were moderate on these exciting subjects, and he claimed the right to stand free of pledges, and to adjust his opinions and his course by the development of circumstances.

These bodies decided in 1889 and 18 9 0 to exert their influence in returning workmen to parliament, and where this was impossible, to secure pledges from middle-class candidates.

Shortly after they threw their pledges to the winds and took the Norwegian Eric Bloodaxe, son of Harold Fairhair (Harald Harfagar), as their king.

But the longing for these pledges of the divine assistance was insatiable.

The Liberal leaders had given public pledges of their adhesion to Lord Lansdowne's foreign policy, and the fear of their being unable to carry it on was no longer a factor in the public mind.

The provisional government of 1868 also promised to respect them, and similar pledges were given by the governments which succeeded.

Elizabeth was alarmed by the successes of the Spanish arms, and especially by the fall of Antwerp; and, though refusing the sovereignty, she agreed to send a force of s000 foot and I 000 horse to the aid of the Provinces under the command of the earl of Leicester, her expenses being - guaranteed by the handing over to her the towns of Flushing, Brill and Rammekens as pledges (loth of August 1585).

Otto, who did not suspect how deep were the designs of the conspirators, paid a visit to Mairiz, where he was seized and was compelled to take certain solemn pledges which, after his escape, he repudiated.

Having secured his coronation at Rome in October 1209, Otto repudiated the many pledges he had made to Innocent and began to act in defiance of the papal wishes.

When, therefore, the conquest of Khiva in 1873 by the Russians, and their gradual approach towards the amir's northern border, had seriously alarmed Shere Ali, he applied for support to the British; and his disappointment at his failure to obtain distinct pledges of material assistance, and at Great Britain's refusal to endorse all his claims in a dispute with Persia over Seistan, so far estranged him from the British connexion that he began to entertain amicable overtures from the Russian authorities at Tashkend.

He had transferred much territory to chiefs and confederacies devoted to his cause; every petty court had its Greek faction; and the detachments which he left behind at various positions, from the Afghan frontier to the Beas, and from near the base of the Himalaya to the Sind delta, were visible pledges of his return.

Pledges of mutual good faith and fellowship were renewed between Philip and Richard of England on the 30th of December 1189, and they both prepared to go on the crusade.

Some of the imperial cities lost their independence at an early date, as unredeemed pledges to some prince who had advanced money to the emperor.

The Republican convention demanded the maintenance of the gold standard, and pointed to the fulfilment of some of the most important of the pledges given by the Republican party four years earlier.

But the Slavophil movement, with its motto, " one law, one church, one tongue," acquired great influence in official circles, and its aim was, in defiance of the pledges of successive tsars, to subject Finland to Orthodoxy and autocracy.

Not so, but by following the new aim we shall also arrive at a true knowledge of the universe in which we are, for without knowledge there is no power; truth and utility are in ultimate aspect the same; " works themselves are of greater value as pledges of truth than as contributing to the comforts of life."

The Roman Catholic religion is declared by the constitution to be the religion of the state, and the inaugural oath of the president pledges him to protect it.

But the victorious Hats refused to redeem the pledges which they had given before the elections.

Meanwhile through the connivance of the American authorities, Santa Anna returned from his Cuban exile, and, as the newly elected Mexican president, disregarding his pledges to aid Polk in bringing about a satisfactory peace, prepared to wage a more effective war against the American invaders.

In the Eumenides of Aeschylus" the Erinyes are reproached in that by aiding Clytemnestra, who slew her husband, " they are dishonouring and bringing to naught the pledges of Zeus and Hera, the marriage-goddess "; and these were the divinities to whom sacrifice was offered before the wedding," and it may be that some kind of mimetic representation of the " Holy Marriage," the IEpos ydpos, of Zeus and Hera formed a part of the Attic nuptial ceremonies.'

The court leet was a court of record, and its duty was not only to view the pledges but to present by jury all crimes that might happen within the jurisdiction, and punish the same.

The business of the session mainly consisted of measures either to demobilize the forces which had been mobilized for the war and restore previous peace conditions, or to improve the social condition of the people in accordance with the pledges of the joint leaders' election manifesto.

The main business of the session of 1920 was the Irish Home Rule bill, which Mr. Law justified as giving to Ireland the largest measure of self-government compatible with national security and pledges given.

Treaties and occasional very important contracts were made "blood-covenants" and inviolable by drawing a drop of blood from the little finger of each of the contracting parties, blending this with water, and both drinking the mixture out of the same cup. The forms of legal evidence were pledges, documents, witnesses and oaths.

In cases of special importance the pledges were human beings, "hostage sureties."

But though he had forced or cajoled every leading man in England and Normandy to take his oath to serve her, he must have been conscious that there was a large chance that such pledges would be forgotten at his death..

It is true that sometimes he kept his oaths or carried out his pledges with the literal punctuality of a lawyer, rather than with the chivalrous generosity of a knight.

At the ensuing diet of 1769, when the Hats returned to power, Fersen was again elected marshal of the diet; but he made no attempt to redeem his pledges to the crown prince Gustavus, as to a very necessary reform of the constitution, which he had made before the elections, and thus involuntarily contributed to the subsequent establishment of absolutism.

Then, in fulfilment of pledges by which he had procured the adhesion of many Yorkist supporters, he was married at Westminster to Elizabeth (1465-1503), eldest daughter and heiress of Edward IV.

Convicted of sedition, he was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment, but he was released within a year under pledges of good behaviour.

Grand summit pledges that turn into creative accounting breed cynicism.

The College is deeply grateful to members who have already responded with pledges of support through a legacy.

It pledges to ' fight discrimination and encourage a vibrant multicultural Glasgow ' .

This means we are now in a stronger position than ever to help secure our key manifesto pledges.

With expectations raised by Yeltsin's extravagant election pledges, the situation is very volatile.

The total of all funds donated and pledged so far, including legacy pledges, is well over £ 1 million.

A girl pledges to marry the suitor who can spend the night in a haunted house.

Start a contest for whoever gets the most pledges or sells the most tickets.