And to governments, he made a promise: if you take the risks that reform entails, you will have the full support of the United States.
During his campaign in 2010 he made a rash promise not to raise taxes without approval by the people, but then proved unable to persuade the legislature to put the required measure on the ballot.
One of the missions of the film is to help a little boy trapped in the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp uphold the promise he made to a dying rabbi to always tell the world what happened in Bergen-Belsen.
Ashcroft says he expects Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to keep a tax cut promise he made to Ashcroft and four other conservative senators, regarding upcoming House-Senate negotiations on a final budget agreement.
When asked by an analyst whether he still vows to return to sales growth this year, a promise he has made repeatedly and reiterated last November, Johnson appeared to leave the door open.
In his remarks, Obama said the funding would be in line with a promise he made earlier this year to increase levels of research.
For Merck's Peter Kim, the work amounts to fulfillment of a promise he made to his predecessor, Edward Scolnick , who headed Merck's laboratories for 17 years.
The irony is that a promise he made at the beginning of his presidency to make the case for active and intelligent, albeit limited, government had shown signs of coming good.
He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.
Guantanamo Bay also threatens to create new enemies of the state and diminish the country's moral standing in the world, Obama said, revisiting a campaign promise he made before his first term.
So I would say that this is mostly about coming through on a promise that he made to the American people that he would have a comprehensive energy plan that would include some increased domestic production of energy but also some big investments in renewable technology, as well as finding ways to promote efficiency and things like that.
But President Obama had made net neutrality a campaign promise, one he reiterated after taking office.
When Erik enlisted in the Army, Deven made a promise that if anything bad ever happened, he would finish what his brother started.
But after 18 years of Conservative Party rule, a working-class takeover might be considered a revolution -- something Blair has made clear he cannot promise.
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"I made him promise as a condition of getting this appointment that he would adopt a dramatic new idea in the next few years -- sleep, " Clinton joked.
Minority Leader Reid won't confirm that he made that promise, and it's possible the decision would fall to a vote of the entire party caucus.
When it comes to helping New Jersey rebuild from the storm, "the president has kept every promise he's made, " said Christie, widely considered a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
And yet this week the president, in his joint press conference in the Azores with the British and Spanish leaders, made a startling promise: once victory in Iraq had been achieved, he would seek yet more Security Council resolutions to help rebuild the country.
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He has also made good on his promise to leave Iraq, even if the place is hardly in a stable state.
Some of the president's advisors favor it and insist he has to sign a welfare bill before this year's election to keep his promise, made in 1992, to end welfare as we know it.
His return came with the promise of buying the best team in Europe -- a pledge he had also made and delivered upon in his first stint at Real Madrid between 2000 and 2006.
Frontrunner McCain took a break from the campaign trail, but made a promise on ABC's "This Week" not to raise taxes if he's elected, by using a phrase that got former President George H.
"We made them a promise that we would make this company a great investment for them, " he recalls.
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