But none of the aid is new money. And some nongovernmental organizations faulted the EU for not pledging more.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

And Deuteronomy is also something of a loyalty oath, except that the people are pledging their loyalty to a god rather than to a human king.

申命记也是一种忠诚试验，虽然人们是,对神宣誓他们的忠诚而不是对一个人类。

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human rights investigators applaud moves made by President Barack Obama in pledging to close Guantanamo Bay and stopping the practice of torture and extraordinary rendition.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The pledging of all these assets by Greek banks is a tragedy waiting to happen to Greek savers.

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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.

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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.

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