6 sentences with “pledged”

The local parliament renounced its allegiance to the Catholic emperor and pledged to support a Protestant prince in his place.

In May 1939 Italy and Germany pledged to ally with each other, more or less as a formality given their long-standing fascist kinship.

Once the test was over, Boell underwent an instant metamorphosis. Enthusiastic, he pledged his support, and I was accepted to Yale on scholarship.

The King of England, Edward III, was next in line, but powerful members of the French nobility rejected his claim and instead pledged to give the crown to a French nobleman from the royal line named Philip VI.

Pitt pledged huge sums of money and resources to defeat the hated Catholic French, and Britain spent some of the money on bounties paid to new young recruits from the colonies, helping to invigorate the British forces.

In November 1775, he issued a decree, known as Dunmore's Proclamation, promising freedom to slaves and indentured servants of the rebels who remained loyal to the king and who pledged to fight with the Loyalists against the insurgents. Dunmore's Proclamation exposed serious problems for both the patriot cause and the British.