He said that he had confidentiality agreements with each of these sources, who signed written statements releasing him from his previous pledge of secrecy.

Ms. Holtzman's decision to delay the release of the report was a departure from her previous pledge to let the voters know the facts before the primary.

Mr. Greenspan's testimony came two weeks after the Fed rattled investors by retreating from its previous pledge to keep interest rates low for "a considerable period."

The Mayor's flexibility is limited by his previous pledges to freeze property tax rates, the city's main revenue source, for the next three years.

They caution that China has yet to prove it will abide by previous pledges it has made not to share missile technology with countries like Iran.

It cracked once, when word got out in November 1986 that he had tried to trade arms for hostages, defying all previous pledges.

They denied all such activities and re-asserted previous pledges.

That would give Mr. Bush a chance to fulfill his previous pledges to curb arms sales to that volatile region.

They were so much more concerned with their own national purses than about the people in Kosovo that previous pledges were fiddled.

He noted it was a violation of North Korea's previous pledges to hold to a moratorium on missile tests.