I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an election promise/pledge (= one that is made while a person or party is trying to be elected )
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The government has broken all its election promises.
pledge/offer (your) support (= say that you will support someone or something )
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Both the opposition parties pledged full support for the new administration.
pledge/promise assistance
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A group of donors led by the World Bank promised assistance to the value of US$508,000,000.
swear/pledge allegiance
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
swear/pledge loyalty (= promise that you will be loyal )
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The president's assistants swore their loyalty to him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
campaign
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To keep campaign pledges to make education his top priority, Clinton wants two new middle-class tax breaks for college tuition.
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Nothenberg will help Brown try to fix Muni, a key campaign pledge .
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Christie Todd Whitman had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
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His proposal fulfilled a 1992 campaign pledge to provide a middle-class tax cut.
election
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The dramatic move - effectively devaluing our currency - exposed the Prime Minister's general election pledges of economic recovery as worthless.
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Some studies of specific election pledges and their fulfilment by governments have already been made.
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They had carefully avoided any election pledge to dismantle the structure of New Deal and Fair Deal programmes.
■ VERB
break
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Even the newly converted Battling Billy broke the pledge that day.
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When he broke that pledge , his political goose was cooked.
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And environment group Friends of the Earth accused the government of breaking a pledge to help more people.
fulfil
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We shall fulfil the pledge given by the Prime Minister in 1987 and abrogated every year since then.
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His proposal fulfilled a 1992 campaign pledge to provide a middle-class tax cut.
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It is about time chairmen and administrators started to listen to the managers and worked on fulfilling the pledge .
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He said he had promised the nation an election then and would fulfil the pledge using all constitutional means.
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Downing Street announced that the Prime Minister intended to fulfil his longstanding pledge .
give
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Jones subsequently denied, however, that he had given any pledge of support to Braithwaite.
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But I give you this pledge .
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The Labour party has already given that pledge on behalf of a future Labour Government.
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Will the right hon. Gentleman publicly give that pledge ?
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This arrangement could be extended to any group in the health service prepared to give a similar pledge .
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Shas has not even given a clear pledge to support the prime minister in peace talks.
honour
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The Bishop says John Major should honour his pledge to raise the level of aid.
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Perhaps the time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge .
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Instead he should press Kennedy to honour Eisenhower's unwritten pledge to provide Polaris as an alternative to Skybolt.
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They have been undermined by the failure of governments to honour pledges to provide personnel and funds.
keep
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She warned that not keeping those pledges could cause tremendous anger.
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To keep campaign pledges to make education his top priority, Clinton wants two new middle-class tax breaks for college tuition.
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Christie Todd Whitman had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
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But they prepare people to be approached personally, and they created pressure on the volunteers to keep their pledge .
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You hope he keeps his pledge to stay in school another year to work on his skills.
make
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Chairman Sir John Hall made that pledge yesterday and the deal could be worth £1 million to Keegan.
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Rosenbloom is not asked to make any such pledge .
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Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
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One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal.
redeem
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It failed to redeem the pledge , and now says it is no longer bound by the deal.
sign
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A year ago, he might even have considered signing the pledge and going to bed at six.
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He signed the pledge , and he and Dorothy were married on August 10, 1937.
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Landlords in Oxford are signing the drinkwise pledge .
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Gandhi was happy when six hundred men and women in Bombay signed the Satyagraha pledge .
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There is indeed something vaguely McCarthyite about demanding every candidate sign a pledge lest they be denounced.
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For example, it has persuaded 4, 500 supermarkets to sign a pledge endorsing farm workers rights.
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By September 1939, 130,000 people had signed the pledge .
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The group announced an advertising campaign to bring public pressure on lawmakers to sign the pledge .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fulfil a promise/pledge etc
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Instead, people earn both through a reinforcing cycle of making and fulfilling promises.
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Pity he didn't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November.
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Young said he had fulfilled a promise he made when taking the helm in 1969&.
redeem a promise/pledge
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The coup leaders have ignored their pledges to hold democratic elections.
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The Government has fulfilled at least 50% of its election pledges.
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We have received pledges of help from various organizations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All 43 Texas Cowboys and pledges who were at the initiation picnic in Bastrop County tell strikingly similar stories about that night.
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He said he hopes Clinton will follow through on his pledge to restore aid to legal immigrants in later legislation.
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Insured bonds carry a pledge from a private backer to pay interest and principal on the bonds if the issuer defaults.
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Reminiscing about events that are now more than 50 years old, Dole said he could still remember being a pledge trainer.
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Some studies of specific election pledges and their fulfilment by governments have already been made.
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Therefore they do not apply to pledges.
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Today, at Shiv Shakti, a health post is being opened; a pledge that the people intend to stay here.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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One local authority's already pledged ten thousand pounds towards the study.
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But giant telecommunications firms that have already pledged tens of billions for highway construction favor a less regulated market.
also
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He also pledged that Midland did not intend to end free banking for personal customers in credit by introducing new charges.
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Netscape Communications also pledged its support for the new operating system.
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He is also pledging his private jet and everything else his family owns.
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Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level.
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It has also pledged a further £15,000.
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The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
yesterday
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The Co-op pledged yesterday that it has no plans to re-introduce charges.
■ NOUN
allegiance
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On the following day he apologized for his actions and pledged his allegiance to the government.
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With his hand on his heart and tears spilling down his cheeks, Charles Prince pledged his allegiance to the flag.
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When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
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When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.
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Only those who pledged allegiance to the musicians' brilliance, mesmerized by daredevil improvisations, were welcome.
commitment
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He doubted whether the company would pledge sufficient commitment to fulfill the promise of HyperCard.
effort
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It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line.
government
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Who can trust such a Government when they pledge to improve the working of the economy?
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Shares in the company had rallied after the government pledged to sell it to private industry before the end of October.
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After a 12 percent cut this year, the government had pledged to make a further 15 percent cut next year.
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The U.S. government has pledged about $ 9 million to help the victims.
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The Government stopped it and pledged to save the mountain.
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On Nov. 7 he named his government and pledged to rebuild the country's economy.
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He said that the Government had only pledged itself to employ the successful barracks architects, but not the Government Offices architects.
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The government pledged to provide at least half of the money, and industry is expected to come up with the rest.
loyalty
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The town remained prosperous and pledged its loyalty to its new owner in a rebellion against the Lancastrian government in 1452.
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Then he pledged loyalty to Frick and to his leadership.
million
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The U.S. government has pledged about $ 9 million to help the victims.
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To help attract the firm, the City Council pledged $ 1 million over four years.
minister
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Yannis Papantoniou, the economy minister , has pledged to speed long-awaited structural reforms.
party
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Is it not short-sighted for both Opposition parties to be pledged to the abolition of this scheme?
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The Labour Party has pledged that, if elected, it will introduce credit controls as an alternative to high interest rates.
president
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By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.
support
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He has pledged to increase support by 10 percent above the rate of inflation for the next three years.
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It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line.
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Netscape Communications also pledged its support for the new operating system.
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Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor, there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards.
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Call 623-1000 to pledge your support or get more information.
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More than 400 Wensleydale Smokebusters have pledged to help support some one wanting to give up cigarettes.
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The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was helpful toward that end and pledged monetary support .
week
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One week earlier he had pledged $ 8 billion for drug control.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Britain has pledged £1.3 million to the UN for refugee work.
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Many rock stars have pledged to support the campaign to save the rainforests.
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Moore has pledged $100,000 to the symphony.
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Should new citizens of Canada pledge allegiance to the queen of Great Britain?
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The government has pledged £500,000 worth of aid to the drought- stricken area.
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The U.S. has pledged aid to the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he pledged that the hospital will be only one facet of a much wider menu of mental health programs.
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He recalls Joe Scott blaming the problems on an improperly updated computer system, and pledging to make corrections.
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Later Tesco pledged to replace the trees at Golden Hill, Bristol.
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Our switchboard was flooded with calls and thousands bombarded our appeal hotline to pledge donations.
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President Clinton supports most of the bill, but has pledged to veto it if the education amendment is included.
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Rakhmanov immediately pledged to end the fighting.