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When you have a child you pledge your life to providing for and being there for that child no matter what.
Seven years after a pledge is tragically killed in a sorority initiation rite, five of the other sisters are invited to a remote mansion (modern style, not Gothic) where they face a fight for their lives, "aided" by two horny young men who are trapped with them.
Having witnessed the flop of his last few contemporary dramatic pictures, Cecil B. DeMille made a pledge to the public that from now on he would only make epics.
After an extremely bizarro pretitle initiation scene where a sorority pledge is murdered, "Sisters of Death" becomes a rather dull affair.
Seven years after the pledge's murder, the five remaining sisters are invited to a reunion at an isolated mansion, presided over by an unknown host; two male escorts hang around as the girls get picked off, one by one.
Thomas tips his symbolic glove in an early scene when a collapsing mine triggers falling plaster and cracks in the walls of the 'big house' in the mining village, which is home to the eponymous sisters, who pledge to rebuild the homes in the mining village destroyed by the collapse.
They make this pledge despite not having change of a match but (so they think) secure in the knowledge that their half brother (Raymond Lovell), who long ago left the village and became a successful businessman, will underwrite the repairs.
4 graduating Seniors, over half the senior class, are coming to terms of whether or not they want to keep their boyhood pledge of leaving once they graduate.
We pledge to spare no effort to advance this aim.
Clearly, violence and terrorism are thriving, despite Sisi’s pledge.
Although its pledge last August to purchase unlimited quantities of short-term government debt has calmed markets, activation of the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” program is conditional on continued fiscal retrenchment.
And Trump will not be alone in taking his oath next month: at around the same time, new members of the US Congress and Trump’s cabinet will make a similar pledge.
The response so far has been overwhelming; tens of thousands have taken the pledge to defend the defenseless.
Only then did Russia start to claim that the US and its European allies had offered some implicit pledge not to expand NATO eastward.
The NPT, after all, is based on a bargain: states that do not possess nuclear weapons promise not to acquire them, in exchange for a pledge by those that do to move seriously toward eliminating their arsenals.
For its part, the EU is offering the strongest pledge yet for the Paris agreement: a reduction in domestic greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 40%, relative to their level in 1990, by 2030.
By issuing such bonds, governments pledge to pay in proportion to the resources they have, measured by their countries’ GDP.
For example,Japan’s pledge of a 25% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 sounds incredible – because it is.
Anxiety over unconventional monetary policies and “currency wars” must not continue to dominate global policy discussions, especially given last month’s pledge by G-20 leaders not to engage in competitive currency devaluations.
Similarly, NATO would agree immediately to keep Scotland in the Alliance (though the Scottish National Party’s pledge to close US and British nuclear-submarine bases would be a complication to be overcome).
Nor should we forget Trump’s pledge to bring millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs back to the US by imposing import tariffs and canceling trade agreements.
In 2002, the US discovered that the regime was secretly enriching weapons-grade uranium in direct violation of its earlier pledge.
Attendees were asked to sign “The Bali Declaration,” a pledge to implement specific health-care policies proven to help bring down TB and diabetes rates.
First, the Troika-friendly Greek government had staked its political survival on the pledge that the country’s second bailout would be completed by December 2014 and would be its last.
Several eurozone governments had secured their parliaments’ agreement by making the same pledge.
It would have been better if, in 2010, the IMF had demanded of the ECB a pledge “to do whatever it takes” and a program of “outright monetary transactions,” like those ECB President Mario Draghi eventually offered two years later.
This pledge is both empty and easy to fulfill.
My pledge is being turned into action.
Nevertheless, at the NATO Summit in Chicago at the end of May, Hollande will confirm his pledge to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, two years ahead of the NATO timetable (though he recognizes the need to negotiate the practical details).
Regrettably, when then-Senator, now Vice-President Joe Biden was asked what spending an Obama administration might have to curtail because of the financial crisis, he mentioned the pledge to increase foreign aid.
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