And I believe in a country that enshrines each of these three things, a country that promises nothing but the promise of being more fully human, and never guarantees its success.

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The Labour leader said on jobs, growth and inflation, Mr Osborne's promises had come to nothing.

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Since the primary season began, however, Mr Bush has said almost nothing about this and has campaigned instead on promises of huge tax cuts: a return to the sort of Republicanism the party bigwigs prefer.

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For the Saudis, its loss is a reminder of a problem that has been festering just across the Red Sea for some time: Somali analysts say that Saudi Arabia has made big promises of aid and assistance to Somalia, but has delivered nothing of value.

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Indeed, in what promises to be a close election, nothing should be taken for granted and no vulnerability of an opponent ignored.

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This was one of the central promises when scientists decoded the human genome seven years ago--and then a lot of nothing happened.

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But if the world keeps the promises that it has made to itself to really fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, then nothing is impossible.

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While it's still a concept, the company's so-called BeMoved coffee machine promises to finally bring the disparate worlds of hot beverages and motion control together at last, and do nothing short of raise "human interaction with a coffee machine to a higher level" in the process.

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"That such views exist in the heart of the Tory cabinet provides yet more evidence of how out of touch the Tories are with modern Britain, and how David Cameron's claim to have changed his party is, like so many of his promises, nothing more than empty words, " the Labour MP said.

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