Not so much a false promise, then, as a promise likely to suffer delays and only occasionally going south.
But let me be absolutely clear: I will preserve these health care programs as a promise we make to each other in this society.
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In other words, America's presence in Iraq has succeeded in emboldening Syria's would-be reformers, more because it is seen as a threat than as a promise.
No note was signed as a promise to pay back.
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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.
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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It is a strategy that holds promise as a smarter way to reduce infrastructure development costs, protect human and environmental health, and create jobs.
As a Jesuit priest who has embraced the vow of poverty (not simply a promise as diocesan priests do) he will find ways to restore integrity to Vatican finances.
If President Obama can indeed guide the parties toward an agreement that puts the federal government on a sustainable fiscal path, it would be a substantial achievement and would vindicate his early promise as a bipartisan leader.
Even the old faces being returned to parliament are singing a new tune: many promise, as a matter of the first order, to change the electoral system.
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.
All they have done is put a deposit down often as not not even that just a promise to buy if the price of oil remains high enough.
Is he using this referendum promise as a carrot for the British electorate to vote the Tories back in?
As a country, we promise to stand beside our public safety community and do our part to help keep America safe and secure.
And like Western firms' cross-border investments into Chinese banks, Goldman's ICBC stake never fulfilled its promise as a potential gateway to a much bigger slice of the investment-banking market.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1980, Scott showed early promise as a golfer growing up in Australia's tropical state of Queensland -- a favored golfing destination in Australia.
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Reverse mortgages, which hold great promise as a way for the frail elderly to pay for long-term care costs while living at home, are failing to do the job.
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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.
Makers of fixed-wing aircraft are also looking at diesel engines, in small planes at least, where they show promise as a serious alternative to standard piston engines, which run on a high-octane form of petrol.
As a writer and as a consultant, I loved the drama and promise of the dream of a new Conversational Era.
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After all, there is nothing in the ACA to prevent a future Congress from reneging on this promise and, as part of a deficit-cutting agreement, slashing the federal contribution to, say, 75 percent.
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" In his Inaugural Address he pledged in "a moment rich with promise" to use American strength as "a force for good.
Chilton finished fourth in the GP2 series, which acts as a feeder competition for F1, and showed promise in his two performances in the Marussia car, in a young driver test and in free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
And we can once again call upon this spirit as we seek the promise of a new beginning.
We tried tax cuts in 2001..with the promise of growth as a pancea to solve the debt crisis.
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As a result, hedge funds that promise high returns (especially after deducting their substantial fees) need to take outsized bets to deliver.
The woman alleges she came to the UK on the promise of work as a nanny and domestic worker, only to be treated like a servant and physically and sexually abused.
The pledge seams pretty iron-clad, but when asked about this, his top political advisor David Axelrod is a little squishy, describing the president's commitment not as a read-my-lips promise, but as something more aspirational.
Whether this is a proper focus for business education is being openly challenged by thought leaders such as Harvard's Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation include The Innovator's Dilemma, and Rakesh Khurana, also of Harvard, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
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