The pledging of all these assets by Greek banks is a tragedy waiting to happen to Greek savers.
Southern Cross's hope is that they will all sign a statement pledging continuity of care for the company's 31, 000 residents in its 751 homes - irrespective of whether the company is rescued and reconstructed or whether it falls into administration.
Tokyo has differed from similar pledging conferences of recent years in one important respect: unlike in the cases of Bosnia, or Kosovo, or even East Timor, no formal international structure is being set up to co-ordinate the reconstruction effort and to shoulder much of the burden of administering a country that, after more than 20 years of strife, has only the most rudimentary governmental mechanism of its own.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
The aim is to produce a statement at the end of the meeting pledging there will be no precipitate closures of the homes, which provide care to 31, 000 elderly residents.
Pledging in front of people that matter encourages people to hold themselves accountable and stick to their commitment.
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In Greece, the right-wing New Democracy party came to power in 2004 pledging a liberalisation of the economy.
Billionaire Warren Buffett is involved too, pledging a majority of his shares of Berkshire Hathaway to the charity, which focuses on fighting malaria, AIDS, hunger and improving education.
Though they stop short of pledging to put it fully under Ofcom, which regulates communications, the Conservatives think it should be overseen by a more independent body than the BBC Trust, which does the job now.
The protest at pledging an oath of allegiance to the Queen, the arrest at an anti-nuclear demonstration at Faslane, the time in prison for refusing to pay her fine, the anguish of the split in her party do not form part of this story.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's People's Alliance, meanwhile, campaigned on speeding up the pace of change, pledging to remove a race-based system of quotas and preferences that has defined this diverse nation for decades and opened up its closely controlled political system.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's People's Alliance, meanwhile, campaigned on speeding up the pace of change, pledging to remove a race-based system of quotas and preferences that has defined this diverse nation for decades and open up its closely controlled political system.
In the months that followed the attacks, Bush radically changed the course of US Middle East policy by pledging American support for the democratization of the Arab and Islamic world.
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Mr. Sharif made tackling these challenges the centerpiece of his campaign speeches, repeatedly pledging to end the "curse" of power outages once in office.
Even Microsoft has adopted something of the approach of the open source movement by pledging to governments to give them sight of Windows' source code.
The present government has brought some of this unwanted attention on itself by pledging to make human rights a centrepiece of its foreign policy.
Is the President pledging that all 121 of these proposed cuts will be made?
Professor Martin Tippard, teaching dean at Dundee University Medical School, said students were now required to sign a code of practice pledging to act honestly.
For a start, by pledging a big chunk of government money to hydrogen research, Mr Bush is helping his natural constituents in the car and energy industries.
In March, they surprised the country by releasing a joint statement declaring an end to violence and pledging to freeze recruitment of new adolescent members, especially in poor neighborhoods and around schools.
Activist investor William Ackman fired the latest salvo in his bid for a seat on the board of Target Tuesday, pledging to maintain his personal investment in the retail chain for five years if he and his slate of four nominees is elected.
He's the former president of Iran, one of the wealthiest men in Iran and a cleric who was one of the architects of the Islamic Revolution, so it was pretty surprising when he ran on a pretty Reformist platform pledging to open a new chapter of detente with the United States and to attract foreign investment and relax social restrictions on the youth.
But Pyar Jung Thapa, the chief of staff, is sounding co-operative, pledging loyalty to the new government and speaking of absorbing rebels into the army under a peace deal.
His opposition alliance won the popular vote, securing 50% of the ballot by pledging to remove race-based quotas for the majority but poorer ethnic-Malay community in this mostly Muslim country of 28 million.
And the SNP has focussed on education, pledging to reduce the size of primary one to three classes.
Held on June 20, the summer solstice, the event called on people to participate in a sunrise-to-sunset endurance relay, with donors pledging various amounts per hour of participation.
And with Mr Odinga pledging to accept the ruling of the Supreme Court which will hear his case alleging that Mr Kenyatta's victory was rigged, he and the rest of Kenya was expressing confidence in the judiciary.
It is pledging to complete the transfer of advanced S-300 air defense systems, which will greatly complicate - if not effectively preclude -- aerial attacks by the Israelis or U.S. forces aimed at destroying that facility and others associated with the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
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