Not only has he broken solemn pledges made in public; he is now a traitor to the city three times over.

Congress, which adjourns this week, cannot do much now about Mr. Clinton's broken pledge.

These apologies also proved ineffective, and the broken pledge dogged Bush for the entirety of the 1992 campaign.

Bush's eventual opponent Bill Clinton used the broken pledge to great effect late in the campaign.

(Egyptian) Coptic Christians took responsibility for this broken pledge and still fast in penance.

If it hadn't been for the broken pledge, he would have carried the state.

His son was reminded repeatedly of his father's famous broken pledge not to raise taxes.

And if we want to talk about a broken pledge, tuition fees pales into utter insignificance.

He paid for that broken pledge with his life and the forfeit of all that he owned.

(Any rumors of broken pledges behind closed doors have never been substantiated.)