Last month, Mr. Spano, who once pledged to reduce taxes, proposed to increase the county's property tax levy by 28.6 percent.

Taliban officials once pledged to crack down on cultivation of the poppy used to make heroin.

As my brother once pledged his allegiance to Briavel, so I do too.

It was that earlier plan that the Clinton Administration once pledged as many as 30,000 American troops to enforce.

Robert Plant once pledged to a public radio station that promised they would never play the song.

The contras, he once pledged, would "wage a war without quarter against international communism, which has now taken over Nicaragua."

I once pledged myself to a true king, but you are not that man.

I think the answer would have been clear to those who once pledged their sacred honor to the cause of liberty.

A white Bosket once pledged 138 of his slaves as collateral for a small loan.

So the sisters who once pledged to be always together become separated by more than borders.