During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

Three cabinet ministers urged Stevens to challenge Bennett for the leadership of the party within the Conservative caucus and a total of 72 of the 137 Conservative MPs pledged to support Stevens, but he declined to challenge Bennett for the party leadership without a leadership convention and, instead, quit the Conservatives to form the Reconstruction Party of Canada to run in the 1935 Canadian election.

Labour had been only just over 1, 000 votes behind the Conservatives in 1997 and ran an energetic campaign, raising the issue of fox hunting which she pledged to ban.

There were potential conflict-of-interest issues early in his term, as one of the first major issues the Conservatives pledged they would sort out was the replacement of the Forces ' ' tactical airlift ' fleet.

The Conservatives were opposed to the majority American ownership, even though the government pledged that the pipeline would only be under American control during the construction phase.

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.

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.

If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

Ramone and 49 other recording artists — including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Lou Reed and Run DMC — collaborated on the song " Sun City ", in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.

In January 1899, Mubarak signed an agreement with the British which pledged that Kuwait would never cede any territory nor receive agents or representatives of any foreign power without the British Government's consent.

However, the CCF and Socreds had pledged to cooperate with a Tory government, meaning that St. Laurent would have likely been defeated in the legislature in any event.

The manifesto also pledged that a Labour government would abolish the House of Lords, nationalise banks and leave the then-European Economic Community.

In return for these concessions, the priesthood pledged that the king's birthday and coronation days would be celebrated annually, and that all the priests of Egypt would serve him alongside the other gods.

Apologising for having called the monks ' tenants to service in his army when there had been no national call-up, Bruce pledged that, henceforth, he would " never again " require the monks to serve unless it was to " the common army of the whole realm ", for national defence.

In 1958, the Moroccan King Mohammed V in an address at El Ghizlan called for a renewal of the " everlasting allegiance " that some Saharan tribes had pledged to Moulay Hassan I and promised that Morocco would mobilise itself to see the Western Sahara brought under Moroccan rule.

The eight member countries of the Warsaw Pact pledged the mutual defense of any member who would be attacked ; relations among the treaty signatories were based upon mutual non-intervention in the internal affairs of the member countries, respect for national sovereignty, and political independence.

A secret convention pledged that if Britain and France were still at war by 1 May 1762, Spain would enter the war on the French side.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged that his country would continue fighting al-Qaeda " in co-operation with its partners ".

Six kings in Britain, including the King of Scots and the King of Strathclyde, pledged their faith that they would be the king's liege-men on sea and land.

He pledged the U. S. Government would " do its part for peace in every forum, at every level, at every hour ".

Hoover opposed the bill and called it " vicious, extortionate, and obnoxious " because he felt it would undermine the commitment he had pledged to international cooperation.

On June 6, 2004, at the commemorative ceremony of the Normandy invasion in Caen, German chancellor Gerhard Schröder pledged that Germany would not forget the Nazi atrocities and specifically mentioned Oradour-sur-Glane.

Eadred “ reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control ; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted .” Moreover, in 947 he convened Archbishop Wulfstan and the Northumbrian witan at Tanshelf ( now in Pontefract, West Yorkshire ), on the boundary of the Humber ( near an old Roman road ), where they pledged their obedience to him.

More seriously, it would potentially expose the fact he'd pledged a warrant to buy ImClone shares as collateral for a loan from Bank of America, even though he'd already executed the warrant in 2000.

At her father's deathbed, Gimbutas pledged that she would study to become a scholar: " All of a sudden I had to think what I shall be, what I shall do with my life.

Accordingly Robert made an accommodation with Philip in June 1320, under which Robert would confirm his young grandson, Louis, as his designated heir, in return for Louis being pledged in marriage to Philip's second daughter, Margaret.

" Although South Carolina law permitted electoral fusion, the Labor Party pledged not to endorse candidates of any other party.

The lot was valued at C $ 31 million and the federal and provincial governments also pledged funding for a new more modest project that would only cost some $ 130 million.

The next day Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada pledged 9. 5 million CAD in new aid for judicial reform and housing projects, monitors for the coming Palestinian elections, border management and scholarships for Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon.

In September 2009, Lincoln pledged to filibuster any legislation containing a Public health insurance option, such as the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House of Representatives ' proposed health care reform bill.

While she opposed President Obama's budget resolution, she pledged to work in a bipartisan manner on the issues of health care reform and energy.

Keeping the chain of command established by Murtala, Obasanjo pledged to continue the programme for the restoration of civilian government in 1979 and to carry forward the reform programme to improve the quality of public service.

Following his victory, Tee Keat pledged reform and reaching out to more young voters in order to revive the party.

He pledged to continue with his reform and privatization programme as well as form a new Cabinet.

He also pledged to do everything possible to reform the troubled $ 28 billion department.

He accepted his election with a speech at the party headquarters, and pledged to carry out a broad ideological and organizational reform, aspiring to regain majority status.

The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.

They even threatened to vote down the Budget in the House of Commons ( Irish Nationalists favoured tariff reform and abhorred the planned increase in whisky duty ) until Asquith pledged to introduce such measures.

By March 2000, little land had been redistributed as per the land reform laws that began in 1979, when the Lancaster House Agreement between Britain and Zimbabwe pledged to begin a fairer distribution of land between the white minority who ruled Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1979 and the black population.

This setback led to Wellington's resignation in November and Earl Grey formed a ministry pledged to reform.