Clean-tech executives were encouraged by commitments to improve energy efficiency made by India and China, as well as a promise by rich countries to funnel billions to poor ones to pay for green investments.
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The state pension, also linked to the RPI, must go up by at least 2.5%, following a promise made by ministers a few years ago when inflation fell and pensioners got shirty.
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The Cabinet also agreed on a salary cut of 30% for ministers and the president, in line with a campaign promise by Hollande, Vallaud-Belkacem said.
In France, the presidential office of Nicolas Sarkozy found itself having to backtrack on a promise made by Mr Sarkozy that big-name politicians elected to the European Parliament for his UMP party would have to take their seats.
Getting that same buck for less than a dime is the promise offered by Aprimo and a handful of others, including Broadbase and Epiphany.
But it is, again, a false promise to make by any politician that they have a 3-point plan -- that a 3-point plan exists that can guarantee a certain price for unleaded gasoline at your local Exxon or Sunoco or Chevron station.
Most striking was a promise to cut by half the number of people with inadequate water and sanitation, and to try to do so by 2015.
The immunotherapy method, which Nowak-Wegrzyn called a "big advancement in the field, " has also shown promise in a study by Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Or perhaps what Hester made as a threat was taken by Osborne as a promise, and the two sides say they are now in agreement on the course of action.
The payoff has been a growing community built around the brand promise by supporters who have a strong sense of ownership in Change.org and how it delivers.
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On 2 June he won a no confidence vote in the Diet (parliament), only by making a promise to step down at a future date.
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So was Mr Dobson pushed, or was he lured by a promise of future preferment?
The markets were also boosted by a promise that, unlike the Greek deal, future bail-outs would not require a write-off for private-sector creditors.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a "promise" made by the government to all children and young people under the age of 18 years.
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John Kerry, the Democratic candidate in 2004, followed suit, and in 2008 Barack Obama broke a promise and made history by becoming the first big-party candidate to forgo public financing for both the primary and the general election.
But there are seeds, too, in the very nature of things: a promise, after all, is only a promise, even when it is supported by divine revelation, and the chances against its fulfillment may be put into a depressing mathematical formula.
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He campaigned for election in 2002 with a promise to cut income tax by a third, and this is still official policy.
The move follows the takeover earlier this year of five small banks by healthier competitors, encouraged by a government promise to spend more than 10 trillion won in taking up dud loans and helping the acquiring banks to bolster their capital.
Registered nurses also promise to abide by a duty to "make the care of people your first concern, treating them as individuals and respecting their dignity".
That promise of a referendum was seen by many as a political play to shore up support for the Conservatives amid growing signs of discontent within the party and voters flocking for the exits.
For example, those big Scottish financial firms which warned their employees during the 1992 election that devolution could mean a shift of jobs south of the border have been persuaded by Tony Blair's promise of a referendum to remain silent on devolution at this election.
Everyone agreed that the record high price of oil was a worry, but the Saudis offered little relief other than to promise to increase production by 200, 000 barrels a day, which was in line with expectations.
She contends that the old Madison Avenue days of a brand being defined by its logo and a tag line spelling out its promise are over.
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The Tories, fulfilling a pledge by David Cameron when he ran for the leadership, promise to create a new group after the European elections in June, uniting mainstream parties of the right that oppose ever closer union.
RALs (and similar lending products) are essentially loans secured by the promise of a tax refund.
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In other circumstances, Mr Milosevic might be lured out of office by the promise of a comfortable life in exile.
Harold Wilson's promise of renegotiation followed by a referendum split Labour down the middle in the 1970s and led to the creation of the breakaway SDP in the 1980s.
Who among the downtrodden and the dispossessed can fail to be stirred by the promise of a world in which all men are equal, and each has what he needs?
Last year, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski started to fulfill this promise by proposing rules using a legal theory from an earlier commission decision (from which I had dissented in 2008) that was under court review.
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