How do you respond to the criticism that this is just a big, broken promise?
Among city folk there is widespread support for reconciliation and dismay at the prime minister's broken promise.
He said any retreat in the Budget - later that month - from the government's aid pledge would be a "broken promise".
Following his much publicised apology over his broken promise on increasing student tuition fees, Nick Clegg's critics believe his future actions must speak louder than words.
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With that she whipped up Microsoft Word and drew herself up a contract including her consideration not to complain about the broken promise unless it was broken.
Peers backed a motion from former Labour justice minister Lord Bach, which "regretted" the coalition had broken a promise on exemptions.
He pointed out that he had broken his promise to take public financing for his campaign (and thus limit campaign spending).
David Cameron has already broken his promise to limit the number of special advisers: now it seems he wants even more of them.
The incident came after the Greek foreign minister, Theodoros Pangalos, said America's President Clinton had broken a promise to sort out the Cyprus problem .
Mr Pinochet is in his present pickle not because Chile has broken its promise to him but because the general made the mistake of swanning around the world on what turns out to have been the false assumption that the decision of Chile's polity binds the rest of the world's courts.
Two days later, the promise was broken and the occupations resumed.
"You made a promise that you have broken and that is why we are all here today, " said Mr Thwaites.
Mr Duhalde has broken his original, rash, promise to repay dollar savings in dollars while turning dollar loans into pesos.
Since the resignation of President Richard Nixon over Watergate, most presidential candidates have run on the promise to fix a broken Washington.
"The promise of technology has actually broken down geographic barriers, " says David Demko , a gerontologist and professor at Florida Atlantic University who coined the term "zoomers" for affluent boomers who stay active well into old age.
"In 2010 they were given hope of permanent relief from expansion - they trusted the word of those who gave that promise and it should not be broken, " he said.
And though the Russians may promise special treatment for the space programme, they have already made and broken such promises more times than anyone cares to remember.
Just as important, he is likely to repeat his claim first made in his December interview on 60 Minutes that the Fed has the tools and the ability to keep its promise of controlling inflation should he conclude that inflation has, in fact, broken out.
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