Reducing the list by at least 100, 000 was a key election pledge at the last election, and this was achieved in March 2000.
Hamilton made the pledge at a "welcome home" event staged by McLaren at their base in Woking, Surrey, on Wednesday.
That is the pledge at the heart of the speech on Europe which David Cameron has so long agonised over.
In addition, Gates has led a campaign to encourage other billionaires to pledge at least half of their wealth to charity.
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Check out the company's plea after the break, and if you're so inclined you can pledge at the source link below.
The New Flemish Alliance, which made the break-up of Belgium a central manifesto pledge at the election, said it had "fundamental remarks" to make about the proposal before continuing negotiations.
Its first action was to challenge oil companies to double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas stations within the decade.
What's already striking about this reshuffle is that it is being used to address Tory weaknesses in the long run up to an election - hence the new soothing presence of Jeremy Hunt at Health, Chris Grayling's harder line at Justice and a new pledge-free Patrick McLoughlin in charge of deciding whether there should be a new third runway at Heathrow.
And the nuclear weapons states pledge that at some future point, they will give up their nuclear arsenals.
G8 pledge will at best motivate firms to hit this mark, but not surpass it.
He says 200 House Republicans have signed the pledge and at least 20 more have campaigned on not raising taxes.
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First, let us pledge ourselves at tomorrow's European Summit, individually as nations and collectively as the EU, to do all we can to detect, root out and defeat the terrorists on our soil.
At least, the persistent Mr Stoiber seemed to worm such a pledge out of Mr Kohl at a meeting in a Bavarian monastery in the summer.
At first, such a pledge sounds dryly resolute, like the plot synopsis for a science documentary.
Thereafter, I pledge that, at least once a day, I will clear my inbox of everything.
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More than 100, 000 public and private schools across the United States were urged to participate in a simultaneous recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at 2 p.m.
Much of the strategy focuses on improving links with the private sector on the issue of cybercrime - with "hubs" to allow information to be shared on cyber threats and a pledge to look at new ways to bring together businesses, academics and government to exploit the latest innovations in tackling the threat.
This pledge is one that I made at the beginning of this crisis and I intend for America to keep our pledge.
Finally there is the administration's pledge to support Israel at the UN for a year.
This was most likely the first ideological pledge of any kind at Harvard in its 375-year history.
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And at that time there was a pledge by the intelligence community to do better on connecting the dots.
So although we can't all take Warren Buffett's "millionaire's pledge" -- where the richest of the rich pledge to give away at least 50% of their wealth -- we can commit to giving more to others than we do now.
The Bernanke Fed has been characterized by an aggressive attack on Treasury yields through all possible means: zero-bound interest rates with a pledge to keep them at record-lows for years to come, purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities through several programs of quantitative easing (QE), and a maturity extension program dubbed Operation Twist that should push longer-term rates even lower.
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Research presented at the conference has shown that the pledge has consequences.
You can learn more, find an event near you, and pledge to serve here, at the National Day of Service site.
And back then, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, one of the half-dozen Republicans who hadn't signed the pledge, took direct aim at Norquist from the House floor.
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Clinton also included in his address Sunday a renewed pledge to carry out research at the highest standard of ethics to ensure there is never a repetition of a government study in Tuskegee, Alabama, on poor black men whose syphilis went untreated for years.
At the heart of his ETP is a pledge to introduce a more meritocratic society.
You check out the promotional video after the break and, if you're so inclined, pledge some cash to the cause at the source.
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The grantees pledge to make their technologies available at no or little charge to developing nations, though they retain marketing rights in developed markets.
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