They grew up as Americans and pledge allegiance to our flag, and yet they live every day with the threat of deportation.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

So, I make a pledge. You give me seven hours a week, you will pass this class, not just by the skin of your teeth. You will pass it.

我保证，你们要是一周学习7个小时，肯定可以通过这门课，一点都不惊险，你们会通过的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

like some public schools, you're not allowed to say like God and stuff and pledge of allegiance.

像在有的公立学校，你不许说上帝这样的词，也不许表达对上帝的忠诚。

公立学校和私立学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is the largest pledge the eight-year-old organization has ever received.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

In the climactic moment in the story, Joseph demands that his frightened brothers leave Benjamin the other son of Rachel, the other son of the beloved wife leave Benjamin as a pledge in Egypt.

在故事的高潮，约瑟夫要求惊慌的兄弟们留下本杰明,他是Rachelr，另一个儿子，心爱妻子的另一个儿子,当本杰明当作人质留在埃及。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We pledge not to hold major conventions,conferences or other special events involving significant travel to Arizona from out of state."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

The new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama campaigned on a pledge to be less dependent on Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

But I pledge to you, over the next four years, action and results.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

There was generally favorable response across the political spectrum in Muslim countries to the president's public statements - such as a pledge made before Turkey's Parliament in Ankara.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

There were no immediate pledge totals from the Washington meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

In his speech in Atlanta, Georgia to the Disabled Veterans of America, Mr.Obama said the United States is on schedule to fulfill a pledge to transfer security responsibilities to Iraqi forces.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Recently,Japan announced it would provide $5 billion over five years in additional aid to Afghanistan, and would move swiftly to fulfill an existing pledge of $1 billion in economic assistance to Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Provincial officials in the North-West Frontier Province repeated demands for militants in the Malakand division to honor their pledge to disarm after the government agreed to implement Islamic law throughout the district.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

Only hours after Mr.Karzai's victory in the tainted election, President Obama welcomed the Afghan leader's pledge to eradicate corruption, but frankly warned the proof of those efforts will be not in words,but in deeds.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Mr.Obama says he is standing by his pledge to freeze spending for three years in all areas except national security, and programs funded through special taxes that help the elderly and the poor.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The White House says President Barack Obama will attend next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen,Denmark, and will make a provisional pledge to cut U.S.greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

At each stop, I have emphasized president Obama's message that our strategy working with you may be in a new phase, but we pledge our full and continuing commitment to Iraq and the Iraqi people.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Clinton said the United States will "stand by all Iraqis, at this crucial time leading up to national elections, and we pledge to join them in working together to combat all forms of violence and attempts at intimidation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Family and friends of jailed U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi are saying they are relieved she has decided to put an end to her two-week old hunger strike, in the aftermath of an Iranian pledge to hear her appeal next week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

And the new president renewed that pledge at news conferences in London where he attended the G-20 summit Thursday and at a campaign-style town hall event in Strasbourg,France where he was preparing for the 60th anniversary NATO summit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The 22-member Arab League says it will not implement the international arrest warrant, against Mr.Bashir,while Qatar, which is hosting an Arab summit next week, has repeated a pledge not to arrest him even though it is a signatory to the court charter.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"With this blockade against building materials, it seems hard to see how America's pledge of $10 million is going to make any difference unless, because of the close relationship between America and Israel, there's some kind of agreement that this $10 million for UNRWA schools in Gaza will go through."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

And today were announcing a commitment over this next decade, which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact were announcing well spend over $10 billion on vaccines, Despite the amount of the foundations pledge, Gates says its not enough to develop all the vaccines needed in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

The CBO projection is $7 trillion. The difference between the two estimates lies primarily in the fact that the CBO assumes the expiration of Bush administration-era tax cuts, while the White House is assuming that President Barack Obama will honor his pledge against allowing taxes to rise on families earning less than $250,000 a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25