And after making the pledge to appoint a Lincolnesque "team of rivals, " Obama nominated Sen.
"I think it is all too easy not to remember those that can be so easily forgotten, " he said after making the pledge.
By making the pledge before the terms of the Senate deal were even set, Zelizer said, Boehner sent a signal to House Republicans that they were going to lose the battle over the fiscal cliff even if they didn't like the Senate deal.
The Queen's Speech has set out the UK government's pledge to continue making the case for Scotland to remain part of the Union.
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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The government has taken some constructive steps, including playing a helpful role in restoring calm, allowing humanitarian access to the many of the affected areas, and making a clear pledge to bring instigators of the violence to justice.
The idea of the Giving Pledge and making a public commitment, we thought, would motivate others, not just the wealthy.
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He argued the case himself before the justices, making an impassioned plea that the teacher-led pledge forces religion on impressionable youngsters and carries the stamp of government approval.
The Obama administration is making progress along a wide front in fulfilling the president's pledge to our First Americans, investing hundreds of millions of recovery dollars in new schools and roads, strengthening tribal law enforcement, improving Indian education and speeding land into trust to expand tribal resource bases.
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In her speech, Ms May re-iterated the Tories' pledge to "devolve power back to parents and the classroom", making schools "free".
As 2013 approaches, Armstrong could be forced to choose between keeping his promises to Wall Street or making good on his pledge to Huffington to create the next great American newsroom.
Critical to the approval by the Comptroller was a pledge that half the rooms would be used by its own employees, thus making the project a bit less like a property speculation and more like the routine addition of a facility.
Brazil president Dilma Rousseff has recently given her government's pledge to assist in making sure that preparations for the 2014 World Cup run to time.
"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.
Labour, rumoured to be considering making its own pledge on a referendum, may now be on the back foot, our correspondent said.
Heidi Miller Heidi Miller is making good on her pledge to find a way of better coordinating the sprawling securities services operations of JPMorgan Chase .
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Despite the Liberal Democrats' enthusiasm for proportional electoral systems, which tend to produce compromise and coalition government, the Lib Dems are making a lot of uncompromising noise about their election manifesto pledge to abolish tuition fees.
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.
Justice will be done for those whose lives have been upended by this disaster, for the families of those whose lives have been lost -- that is a solemn pledge that I am making.
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