This pledge will help it get the resources a problem of this magnitude deserves.
Is it even appropriate for Coach Tressel to force these players to make this pledge?
This pledge might have seemed a good tactic to win the affections of the party's Eurosceptics.
If the Tories were confident of re-election, they would not have made this pledge.
It said it would follow up this pledge with a "bold action plan" at the beginning of November.
Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd refused to sign this pledge and left their names on the ballot.
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This pledge has been endorsed by more than 30 organizations active in the public policy debate about immigration matters.
This pledge is one that I made at the beginning of this crisis and I intend for America to keep our pledge.
Those who broke this pledge were warned they could lose their homes.
Demonstrating this, Obama is now refusing to put this pledge in writing.
" Furthermore, the State Department letter reported that this pledge would be fulfilled "in time for the start of the 2008 school year.
They are angry that Republicans have pledged not to raise taxes and this pledge is more important than the deficit and needs of America.
And how noble a gesture is it on behalf of these 5 Ohio State student-athletes to make this pledge to their mentor and coach?
Mr Levy has given no details on how this pledge would be resourced but he has promised to review police funding for community projects.
Having howled at those benefit changes already enacted by the coalition, this crowd will want to know how their party uncouples itself from this pledge.
Mr Machinea says this pledge would not be lightly discarded.
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If they make this pledge and commitment to stay in school with the knowledge that they leave millions and millions of dollars on the table, then the pledge carries much more gravity.
"We pledged last summer to cap our energy prices for as long as possible and until at least August 2012, and then in January extended this pledge to October 2012, " he said.
Part of me wants to commend him for making his players take some accountability, and part of me wants to commend the players for their willingness to make this pledge to their coach.
"Unfortunately, the increases in costs that we have seen since making this pledge can no longer be absorbed and mean that we are unable to keep prices at their current levels beyond this autumn, " he added.
Mr Hill welcomed this pledge but said he was concerned that the money had not been ring-fenced, and with reductions to local authority budgets, there was a risk that social care and support services would still see cuts.
The businesses making this pledge include name brands like Proctor and Gamble, Tyson Foods, Hewlett-Packard -- but also smaller companies like Prime Team Services, which is planning to hire hundreds of military spouses and veterans next year alone.
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"I make this pledge to you tonight: I have spent my whole life fighting for what I think is right and against powerful special interests, and I have only just begun to fight, " Kerry said to roars of approval.
Requesting his players to make this pledge makes Coach Tressel and the school look responsible by showing that they at least recognize the potential for these students to get off relatively unpunished should they bolt the university after the bowl game.
This is a matter for individual decisions, my own position is that I'm going to have to be talking about asylum a very great deal and I do not want a distraction by everybody keeping asking me why I haven't signed this pledge rather than by concentrating on the policy.
By making these athletes make this pledge alledgedly, it shows (a) that Ohio State was prepared to sit these players out of the Sugar Bowl had they stated that they planned on bolting for the pros before their senior season, and (b) shifts the onus of the blame onto the players should they bolt for the pros.
Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.
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The EFA Week is observed internationally to reaffirm this historical pledge and review progress towards achievement of the EFA goals.
Ynys Mon MP Albert Owen said there were "so many fault-lines in this policy pledge it is difficult to know where to begin".
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