1.   We have received pledges of help from various organizations.

2.   The Syrian Defence Minister, Gen. Mustafa Tlass, had visited Moscow in February and had reportedly received a pledge of military aid.

3.   Baz said he had received a pledge from the administration that it would not stand by as conditions deteriorate in the region.

4.   Before Syria receives that pledge, no progress is possible.

5.   Even Thursday, the chancellor said he received a pledge of backing from Britain.

6.   He also claimed to have received pledges of continuing support from Iran and Russia, as well as to have held his first meeting with American officials.

7.   In return for accepting him, U.S. officials received a pledge that the next director-general would not be European.

8.   To demand and receive a pledge of honest advertising from political candidates is the furthest form of wishful thinking.

9.   But a new, moderate government in the Bosnian Serb republic has recently received pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid.

10.   But a new, moderate government in the Bosnian Serb republic recently has received pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid.