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In the same vein, Obama’s pledge to “renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crises abroad” was hailed as another telling sign that Obama’s views coincide with Europe’s.
The last reference to international institutions in an inaugural address was President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to support the United Nations in 1961.
In Europe, however, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has criticized the ECB for overstepping its mandate with its “outright monetary transactions” program, through which Draghi aims to fulfill his pledge to guarantee the euro’s survival.
And the 1917 Balfour Declaration – a British pledge to establish a Jewish state in Palestine – laid the groundwork for the creation of Israel in 1948, followed by decades of conflict and negotiations.
Let us pledge that the rich and powerful should take real actions to help the poor, the weak, and the suffering.
Just three days after the SPA was concluded, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on a visit to Berlin, convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to pledge to take “a completely new look” at Germany’s energy policy.
Since then, China has sought to make good on Mao's pledge.
Brazil has reduced deforestation rates in the Amazon by roughly 80% since 2005, and Norway’s pledge of $1 billion is helping to achieve further reductions.
When governments and private donors pledge monetary aid, the funds typically pass through a chain of large groups that determine how it will be allocated.
But it is still mainly a pledge.
The Commission now has until the end of this month to determine whether France has pursued reform diligently enough to avoid penalties for breaking its pledge to cut its budget deficit to less than 3% of GDP by next year.
Meanwhile, the US, after raising its total contribution for Syrian refugee assistance to $3.7 billion last March, has provided an additional pledge of $508 million.
We can also safely assume that Trump will stick firmly to his pledge to “Make America great again”; this will be the foundation for his presidency, come what may.
During this winter’s crisis with Iraq, the Clinton administration sent messages to Khatami’s government to explain the dispatch of additional American ships and military personnel to the Persian Gulf, and to pledge a limited American deployment based on Iraqi behavior.
As China follows through on its pledge to retaliate, the casualties will include more than half the bilateral trade between the two countries, with China itself suffering the most losses.
For my part, I pledge to bring the UN together in coordinated, decisive, and innovative ways to realize this agenda.
As the UN General Assembly convenes for its annual meetings in New York this week, global leaders must recommit to that pledge.
This is nowhere clearer than in Bill and Melinda’s just-released annual newsletter, in which they explain to businessman Warren Buffett how his $30 billion pledge to their foundation – the biggest single gift ever given – is being spent.
Donor Funds are Needed for Poverty, Not IraqAmerica wants the world to pledge billions of dollars to Iraq's reconstruction at a donor's meeting to be held in October in Madrid.
Last year, the company sealed an agreement with the trade union IG Metall that includes a no-layoff pledge for its 128,000-strong German workforce.
The authorities first made the pledge at the United Nations in 2015, and have reiterated it in subsequent official settings.
First, governments should pledge to decarbonize their economies in order to keep global warming below the extreme danger zone of two degrees Celsius.
The Leave campaign even plastered the pledge onto the side of a campaign bus.
His victory speech did include the traditional pledge to be “president for all Americans.”
The Paris climate agreement includes a pledge to keep warming “well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
But, assuming the economy must claw its way out of recession for at least another year or two, it is difficult to see how the government can fulfill its Pittsburgh pledge.
Modi’s stated goal was to make good on his campaign pledge to fight “black money”: the illicit proceeds – often held as cash – of tax evasion, crime, and corruption.
We pledge to prevent illegal fishermen from benefiting from their piracy.
There was also his commitment to fight poverty: “To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required – not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
And this commitment was part and parcel of hemispheric solidarity: “To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge – to convert our good words into good deeds – in a new alliance for progress – to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.”
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