He said any retreat in the Budget - later that month - from the government's aid pledge would be a "broken promise".

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Peers backed a motion from former Labour justice minister Lord Bach, which "regretted" the coalition had broken a promise on exemptions.

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How do you respond to the criticism that this is just a big, broken promise?

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The incident came after the Greek foreign minister, Theodoros Pangalos, said America's President Clinton had broken a promise to sort out the Cyprus problem .

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"You made a promise that you have broken and that is why we are all here today, " said Mr Thwaites.

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Since the resignation of President Richard Nixon over Watergate, most presidential candidates have run on the promise to fix a broken Washington.

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With that she whipped up Microsoft Word and drew herself up a contract including her consideration not to complain about the broken promise unless it was broken.

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"The promise of technology has actually broken down geographic barriers, " says David Demko , a gerontologist and professor at Florida Atlantic University who coined the term "zoomers" for affluent boomers who stay active well into old age.

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