Trust is produced by making and keeping promises.

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And you get now to the point where revenues for all municipalities are squeezed, and keeping those promises is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible.

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There are millions of us who consider dignity and decorum, a respect for rules and conventions, the keeping of promises, telling the truth and accepting responsibility to be attributes of a civilised society.

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There is also a difference between politicians making promises and actually keeping them, as the Kyoto Protocol proved when Canada simply withdrew after missing its targets.

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The Chinese are keeping all their promises and invariably extend help before taking their returns.

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And Silvio Scaglia had a track record for keeping promises at Omnitel.

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It's good to see a promised Kickstarter project come all the way out to fruition, and good on Stainless for keeping all of their promises.

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Its 35 national coalitions mobilize unions, journalists and activists to pressurize the international community into keeping its promises.

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And change is keeping the promise -- one of the promises I made in 2008.

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The LEI promises immense operational efficiencies to financial firms, both in their dealings with counterparties and in their internal record keeping, he said.

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