Initiatives like the ED-X partnership between Harvard and MIT promise to give non-traditional students elements of a world-class education online, and for free.
And give hope to the promise of small entrepreneurship.
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It asks consumers to promise to buy and give only handmade gifts.
And if you give me that vote, I promise you I will always listen to your voices, I will always fight for your families, I'll spend every waking day continuing to make sure that your lives are a little bit better. (Applause.) This is where it got started, Iowa.
The other equally important advice I would give is not to over-promise and under-deliver.
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High school athletes give a verbal promise to attend a college and then back out for another school time and time again.
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The Virtus model is a simple yet timely one: Acquire a diverse group of boutique investment firms that are doing well or have promise, offer these smaller managers liquidity and give them access to broader distribution under a single brand umbrella.
Cruise a big grocery store and count the drinks that promise to make you smarter or give you more energy.
Disney should promise to never alter its new films and should give fans a re-release of the old films sans those edits.
And I know that you put a lot of late nights and long hours in to give these kids opportunities worthy of their promise.
Mr Diller took Seagram's television assets, merged them with his own, and gave Seagram 45%, with a promise eventually to give back the whole caboodle.
She fashioned her own compensation plan: In lieu of a paycheck, Tix would give her a written promise to pay her if and when venture financing came through.
That means, for example, turning Mexican federalism from fiction to fact by fulfilling his promise to give more power to the states and to municipal governments, though without creating new fiscal burdens.
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Since children haven't yet had the chance to accomplish great and lasting things for humanity, all they can give us is the promise of a future.
Meanwhile, Peter Bone, who wants Britain out of the EU, thought that the Conservatives should promise a referendum on any renegotiated membership package - and give voters the option of withdrawal at the same time.
Likewise, overtures to Iran, Cuba and Venezuela put to the test Obama's bold campaign promise to give dialogue a chance even, perhaps especially, with those nations with whom U.S. relations had turned most stagnated or contentious.
Moreover, the U.S. should not leave itself defenseless because of a potential promise of cooperation from Russia, which it is unlikely to give and which past experience informs us will not be honored in any event.
We want to give all our children opportunities worthy of their promise, because we know good and well that all of these children in this country are worthy.
During American Education Week, we recommit to keeping the promise of education alive for this generation and the next, because when we give our children the best chance to succeed, there is no telling what they might accomplish.
If the promise of such changes is to be fully realized, Congress must give urgent and broadly favorable treatment to a package of legislative initiatives now under consideration on Capitol Hill.
' But they have produced legislation ... that will give amnesty now, legalize everyone that's here effectively today and then there's a promise of enforcement in the future.
And there's a growing number of companies that now offer to collect huge amounts of data and analyse it as a service, with the promise of helping businesses find nuggets of information that give them a competitive advantage in their markets.
President George W. Bush allowed his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and lead North Korea negotiator Christopher Hill to give away this leverage in 2007 in return for Pyongyang's promise to come clean about its nuclear program.
Mr. CARTER: The promise made to a lot of these soldiers was at least a year, and that was to give them time to take leave, to reintegrate with their families, to rotate to new assignments if necessary.
And that is why we are all here today -- because we want to give all of our children a foundation for their dreams -- do you know what I'm saying? (Applause.) We want to give all of our kids opportunities worthy of their promise, because all of our kids are worthy, and we know that.
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