Both the Serbian nationalists and the Bosnian Government, defending Sarajevo with a mixed force of Muslim, Croatian and Serbian fighters, signed documents pledging to pull heavy weapons back from the airport area and not to disrupt an airlift.

The union, 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, along with the Greater New York Hospital Association, sent letters last week to the more than 200 legislators in Albany asking them to fax back a signed document pledging to fight the $1.2 billion in cuts being proposed in the governor's budget.

Due to opposition to Buddhism, the king called a meeting with delegates and vassals from all over the kingdom and drew up a document pledging support for Buddhism which was signed by all who attended.

He said that at Dr. Miller's request he had signed a document pledging to maintain the confidentiality of the records.

This became known as underwriting after the practice of signing one's name to the bottom of a document pledging to make good a portion of the losses if the ship didn't make it in return for a portion of the profits.

During his September 1975 administrative discharge hearing, an Air Force attorney asked him if he would sign a document pledging to "never practice homosexuality again" in exchange for being allowed to remain in the Air Force.

She was arrested on 13 May 2004, shortly after she released an album of Christian music, after refusing to sign a document pledging to end all participation in Evangelical activities, which included her music.

After a four-hour meeting at the Sarajevo airport, Rasim Delic, the Bosnian commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic of the Bosnian Serbs and Milivoj Petkovic, the Croatian commander, put their signatures to a document pledging unconditionally "to freeze all military activities" by noon Friday local time.

Spurring him on are his closest comrades, his brother-in-law Terzky and Illo, who scheme to get all the commanders to sign a document pledging their loyalty to Wallenstein.

This institution provides that at a young couple's marriage, all brothers must sign a document pledging to submit to halizah without remuneration, in case their brother dies childless ("Nahalat Shib'ah," p. 22, Warsaw, 1884).