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.
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.
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.
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.
His aim is to show that he is the one who can make the slogan "we're all in it together" meaningful by pledging to use the power of government to stand up to vested interests - banks, energy, pension and rail companies - as well as harnessing the Olympic spirit of working together to repair Britain.
They have thrown out the defining first step of fraternity membership: pledging.
Obama also confronted another concern expressed by opponents of Democratic proposals, pledging that any health care bill approved by Congress won't increase the federal deficit.
In January 1913 unionists set up the Ulster Volunteer Force pledging to resist the bill by force of arms.
"Pledging allegiance to the flag was one of the proudest moments of my life, " remembers Stephen Park, who attended his own naturalization ceremony in 2005.
But he has recently seemed more committed, appreciating, perhaps, that simply pledging improvements, without a credible theory of how they might be achieved, wouldn't wash.
Hargreaves is restructuring the ATH operations in a bid to make them viable, while also pledging to use profits towards the restoration of surface coal-mining after operations are complete.
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