To be sure, Mr Obama has many excuses for failing to keep his promise.
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And he has failed to cut public spending to keep his promise of balancing the budget by 2012.
But there won't be much time to smell the flowers if Waitt is going to keep his promise to revive Gateway.
Second, I sincerely doubt that Bernanke will be able to keep his promise to control inflation quickly once he finally admits it has arrived.
Some of the president's advisors favor it and insist he has to sign a welfare bill before this year's election to keep his promise, made in 1992, to end welfare as we know it.
Acknowledging that the inquiry would be outside the inspector general's jurisdiction and require Obama's invitation, Grassley said the president should do it to keep his promise to maintain unprecedented openness and transparency in his administration.
Unless he is prepared to cut spending, Mr Zapatero can only keep his promise to cut the deficit to 3% of gdp by raising taxes.
But if Barton can continue to exploit Cat's seeming omnipresence, he can deliver on his promise to keep profits at 85% of last year's level.
David Cameron was careful to say - in the advance text we've seen so far - that he'd keep his promise to pensioners not to means-test their benefits, but Iain Duncan Smith made it absolutely clear that that promise lasts just for this Parliament - in other words not for the period the speech is talking about.
By the sounds of it, CEO Larry Page is still making good on his promise to keep Google focused on fewer things.
In this, the president has been aided by his supporters in Congress, who, in helping him keep his ill-conceived promise to shutter Gitmo, have simultaneously enabled him to break his promise to "shine a light on the business conducted inside" the White House.
Popular anger has been rising over his failure to keep a campaign promise of a new constitution, taking some powers away from the over-mighty presidency and creating a new post of executive prime minister.
Faraone's son Osiride wants to keep the Israelites around and continue his clandestine love affair with the Israelite Elcia, so he urges Faraone to break his promise and ends up a casualty of the last plague, the Slaying of the First-Born.
Less than a year after the ECB President Mario Draghi buoyed the markets with his promise to do "whatever it takes" to keep the currency together, the central bank's governors move has left some economists questioning whether the ECB has reached the limits of its power.
Just as important, he is likely to repeat his claim first made in his December interview on 60 Minutes that the Fed has the tools and the ability to keep its promise of controlling inflation should he conclude that inflation has, in fact, broken out.
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