At a meeting of the U. S. House Committee on Science and Astronautics one day after Gagarin's flight, many congressmen pledged their support for a crash program aimed at ensuring that America would catch up.

He donated all the files of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the U. S. Food Administration, and the American Relief Administration, and pledged $ 50, 000 as an endowment.

" During his Presidential campaign, U. S. President Elect Barack Obama pledged to " set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and pursue it.

Genocide by the U. N. definition is limited to national, ethnical, racial or religious groups and as this is the only accord to which nations have pledged allegiance, it stands as the dominant understanding of the term.

In the 1860 presidential election, Tensas Parish supported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U. S. Senator John Bell of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United States, the Union, and the " enforcement of the laws.

In 1991, Japan pledged billions of U. S. dollars for the Gulf War but constitutional arguments prevented a participation in actual war.

During the debates, both candidates, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, pledged to use U. S. forces if necessary to protect Taiwan from invasion by China, the mainland, which the U. S. did not at that time recognize as a legitimate government.

" If the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days of his taking office, Wallace pledged an immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops ... Wallace described foreign aid as money ' poured down a rat hole ' and demanded that European and Asian allies pay more for their defense.

Serge Ricard of the University of Paris goes even further, stating that the Roosevelt Corollary was not merely an addendum to the earlier Monroe Doctrine, through which the U. S. pledged to protect the Americas from European imperialist interventions.

Furthermore, GM Canada president Arturo Elias had admitted to MP Frank Valeriote that GM had pledged all its assets worldwide to the U. S. government in order to secure the first tranche of a US $ 30 billion loan, leaving no assets to collateralize the $ 6 billion loan from the Canadian government.

On May 1, 1976, Bartlett was defeated as a delegate in the Republican presidential primary pledged to then U. S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr. His defeat occurred ironically in Texas's 3rd congressional district, which he later represented in Congress.

* 25px Osama bin Laden pledged to attack the U. S. again.

The U. S. received Florida and inherited Spanish claims to the Oregon Territory, while ceding all its claims on Texas to Spain ( with the independence of Mexico in 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican territory ), and pledged to indemnify up to $ 5, 000, 000 in claims by American citizens against Spain.

When Japan replaced Russia in southern Manchuria after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ) the Japanese and U. S. governments pledged to maintain a policy of equality in Manchuria.

In a press conference held in London on 27 August 1969, U Nu announced that he was the ' legal Prime Minister ' and ' pledged to the people of Burma ' that he would not give up his struggle for democracy in Burma and that Burma was under the ' same kind of fascism ' which ( Burma's independence hero ) ' General Aung San had fought ' ( during the freedom struggle and the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Burma during the Second World War ).

By the outbreak of the American Civil War, Downey pledged support to the Union, responding to requests by U. S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron for California troop assistance.

During that period, also, the infamous Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted, then finally leaked and published on March 1, 1917 ; in which telegram Germany pledged to help Mexico win back Texas, New Mexico and Arizona ( which Mexico had lost to the U. S. some 70 years earlier in the Mexican-American War ) if Mexico would join World War I as Germany's ally.

As part of this mission, USAFE trains and equips U. S. Air Force units pledged to NATO, maintaining combat-ready wings based from Great Britain to Turkey.

" However, Elmasry adds that " the single state solution will never happen in the foreseeable future, of course, because the U. S. is pledged to maintain not only a secure Jewish state, but an expanding Jewish mini-empire carved out of its illegally occupied Palestinian territories.

During the 2008 U. S. presidential campaigns, Sen. Barack Obama pledged his support to clean coal technologies, with plans to develop five commercial-scale coal plants equipped with CCS technology.

In October 2011, as part of a recent bilateral trade deal signed by Myanmar and India, the two countries pledged a U $ 120 Million port and multimodal investment to complete the infrastructure linking Indian Northeastern provinces to Sittwe port in Northwestern Myanmar, overland via India's Mizoram by 2013.

Hawkins pledged to implement what he described as a modern-day version of the Hatfield-Kennedy Amendment ( a proposed Senate resolution intended to cut off funding for the Vietnam War ) which would defund military operations for the U. S. Armed Forces unless and until they were redeployed out of theater, and possibly replaced by an international peacekeeping force.

He majored in English at the U. of M., pledged Chi Phi, and dated Kathryn Vaughn, whom he had met when he was thirteen and she twelve,

In exchange for higher price supports, growers pledged reduction in planted acreage.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

In any case `` here in their judgment conditions require '' ( italics added ) they would `` form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people ''.

Buchheister pledged the land would be an `` inviolate '' sanctuary for all birds, animals and plants.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

Painda Khan's son fled to Iran and pledged the substantial support of his Barakzai followers to a rival claimant to the throne, Zaman's older brother, Mahmud Shah.

The four reportedly pledged themselves to Jihad in the Spring of 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail – who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

The government elected in 2001 pledged to maintain the fundamental economic policy objectives adopted by its predecessor in 1997, specifically: retaining the Currency Board, implementing sound financial policies, accelerating privatisation, and pursuing structural reforms.

If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party.

" Selig has pledged on numerous occasions to rid baseball of performance enhancing drugs, and has overseen and instituted many rule changes and penalties to that end.

Donor countries have pledged the $ 43 million international share of the three-year tribunal budget, while the Cambodian government ’ s share of the budget is $ 13. 3 million.

Regarding economic assistance, official donors had pledged $ 880 million at the Ministerial Conference on the Rehabilitation of Cambodia ( MCRRC ) in Tokyo in June 1992, to which pledges of $ 119 million were added in September 1993 at the meeting of the International Committee on the Reconstruction of Cambodia ( ICORC ) in Paris, and $ 643 million at the March 1994 ICORC meeting in Tokyo.

To date, therefore, the total amount pledged for Cambodia's rehabilitation is approximately 12. 3 G $.

Ibánez was a German national who pledged allegiance to his mother country of Germany, effectively making Chile a German possession.

President Rodriguez pledged to reduce the country's large internal debt, privatize state-owned utilities, attract additional foreign investment, eliminate social welfare programs, and promote the creation of jobs with decent salaries.

For example, a central bank may regulate margin lending, whereby individuals or companies may borrow against pledged securities.

These requirements may be direct, such as requiring certain assets to bear certain minimum credit ratings, or indirect, by the central bank lending to counterparties only when security of a certain quality is pledged as collateral.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

Together with the Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie, and Chief of Staff of the Comoros armed forces Salimou Mohamed Amiri, pledged to increase cooperation between the military of the two nations.

... t is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged.