Will the government try again, if only to be seen to be trying to keep its promises?

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Even when Iceland and all its banks went bankrupt the Icelandic government did keep its promises under the deposit insurance scheme that it had.

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There is still scepticism that the PRI will keep its promises.

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The visionary and highly energetic owner and founder, Warren Adams promises to keep its environmental footprint small and its experience exclusive.

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France's long-suffering taxpayers can only hope that this rise encourages the French state to keep at least one of its 1995 promises: to privatise the bank before the end of the century.

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Mr Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, has three coalition partners to appease, its own campaign promises to keep, and no money to do either.

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