Having agreed to a budget, a dollar spent in the budget is reasonable, but a dollar spent outside of the budget is a dollar breaking your promise to the family.
Building a product that delivers on that promise is a complex and difficult engineering challenge.
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The fact that the merged Daimler-Chrysler intends to have two chief executives and two head offices is a promise of conflict.
Or, perhaps, the fact that this new move is a revival of a promise Labour made in 1997 is, in a way, part of its appeal.
But with a DB pension the employer is making a promise that becomes more valuable with pay and experience.
Yet many individual investors who think they own actual gold could be in for a shock because what they own is a pretty good promise, but definitely not the real deal.
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New figures to be published by UNESCO on Tuesday will show that birth and background -- where you come from and who you were born to -- matters far more in deciding your child's prospects than talent and merit, and that for millions of children educational opportunity is a hollow promise.
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Offering a pension is like incurring a debt, since it involves the promise of a series of future payments.
Dell has regained some of the momentum it lost in recent years, and HP is struggling with an identity crisis, but Lenovo is on a tear and is likely to fulfill its promise in 3Q11.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise.
From this tiny base, there is at least a promise of an advance.
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Unfortunately for the more conservative investors, who had piled into U.S. treasury bonds as a safe haven, the promise of further Fed easing sent the bond market into what is developing into a bear market.
As a result, Mr. Cameron is under pressure to agree to promise a referendum in his party's next election manifesto, a promise his Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the Labour opposition may feel compelled to match.
The overall level of savings is a promise to taxpayers that must be kept.
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What these films have in common, Mr Misher points out, is that they promise a collective experience.
Facebook Home in its alpha release is a promise to play (mostly) nice.
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Since pension promises are legally (and sometimes constitutionally) protected in many states, the equivalent promise is a government bond.
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And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.
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