1. The candidates signed a pact last week vowing to follow electoral rules and keep the peace.

2. It outlawed protests in the days before and after, vowing tough sentences for those who disobeyed.

3. This time, demonstrators are vowing it will be different.

4. She called for a thorough investigation, vowing not to forgive anyone guilty of corruption.

5. It is vowing to organize the pension funds of labor groups that are stockholders unless the company changes its ways.

6. Government subsidies are common, with China vowing to spend tens of billions of dollars to expand its domestic chip industry.

7. A military junta seized power two years ago vowing stability, but has done more to cement its own rule.

8. Senators responded by vowing to revive legislative efforts left for dead twice already this week.