It is a promise to create a world that nothing else can and where I become what I can never be.
It is a promise we make not only to the families of our captured and our missing, but to all who have worn the uniform.
"In other words, we're not actually handing over cash, it is a promise to pay, to back up the IMF's lending if things go wrong, " he said.
But there are seeds, too, in the very nature of things: a promise, after all, is only a promise, even when it is supported by divine revelation, and the chances against its fulfillment may be put into a depressing mathematical formula.
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And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.
It is a strategy that holds promise as a smarter way to reduce infrastructure development costs, protect human and environmental health, and create jobs.
But it is, again, a false promise to make by any politician that they have a 3-point plan -- that a 3-point plan exists that can guarantee a certain price for unleaded gasoline at your local Exxon or Sunoco or Chevron station.
Offering a pension is like incurring a debt, since it involves the promise of a series of future payments.
It is instead, in essence, a promise from the government not to deport an immigrant for two years.
This is symptomatic of the problem with virtual manufacturing: it is still, despite its promise, a sporadic and haphazard phenomenon.
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.
It thinks that there is nothing to prevent it putting up two people who promise to share a single seat in the Scottish Parliament.
Joining a startup while it is still searching for a business model, they, too, see the promise of what can be and join the founder to bring the vision to life.
But it is also to respond to the promise of a vision that brings joy.
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But if shale gas that is embedded in rocks and found a mile beneath the ground is to reach its promise, it would need an expanded infrastructure in place.
Almost as odd is that it is an "initial modelling result", with a promise to publish more material in due course, once it has crunched through some more numbers.
In other words, it is a report arguing for a model that is more ambitious, more labor-intensive, and riskier, without the promise of outright success.
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The only way to rebuild consumer confidence in times like these is to make a simple brand promise and keep it.
It is a rarefied world where the next meeting or event holds the promise of a thought-provoking conversation or an intellectual adventure, but I seldom feel as inspired as I felt this week.
"Stem-cell research is in a very early state and while it may hold great promise we should not overstate the state of science, or politicise these issues, " he wrote in a recent edition of Nature magazine.
And since I know that the other side in Congress have promised they'll never raise taxes as long as they live, this is a good time to keep that promise when it comes to businesses that are putting Americans to work and helping break our dependence on foreign oil. (Applause.) So we should extend these tax credits.
In November Kmart took them up on the promise, and suddenly it is all too visible as a losing proposition.
It might not look full of promise but a lot of hope is hanging on a big grey box at a Cornwall wind farm.
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Moreover, the U.S. should not leave itself defenseless because of a potential promise of cooperation from Russia, which it is unlikely to give and which past experience informs us will not be honored in any event.
The promise is to repeal Dodd-Frank and replace it with a "streamlined, modern regulatory framework".
But Bush is hardly alone when it comes to a president going back on his tax promise.
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The bonds represent a promise to pay Social Security the money back if it is ever needed to pay promised benefits.
General Motors is following through on a previous promise to shift away from IT outsourcing, and to move thousands of tech jobs back inside the company.
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