And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promise don't materialize.
And the American people don't, and I promise you the people of the Gulf don't want to see it either.
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The past promise to ensure they don't lose their share of spending looks hard to sustain.
"What we don't want is that we promise something that we can't deliver, " Ms. Merkel said.
It's a promise Greeks have heard before, and many here don't believe it'll be kept.
Here's hoping that the affiliated Tech Policy Summit--with some participants' eyes cast nervously toward Washington--helps ensure policymakers don't devour the technology sector's promise with ill-conceived intervention (your Wayne will be a panelist there).
They don't have to promise to give minimum standards to the tenants or to the landlords.
Pleasure flights would last just a few hours and don't hold much promise for repeat business.
Be straight with them, and don't over-promise.
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Labour just don't want too many bells and whistles hung round this particular promise and are rather surprised it's got this level of attention.
That may seem like science fiction to many, and private companies don't usually talk down the promise of their products.
If we don't, we won't be delivering the underlying pension contract, and the pension promise my weekend acquaintance was relying on from his financial advisor is not worth a dime.
However, the box does show promise with XviD and Ogg Vorbis support, something those WMCEs don't do easily.
Hybrids are becoming more popular as a smart environmental choice, but the truth is, they don't deliver nearly the fuel economy they promise.
When you buy a Rolls-Royce engine, you don't buy a product, you buy the promise of a working engine for a number of years.
"I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.
It also highlights the promise of 70, 000 QNX apps in the re-named BlackBerry World, although we don't know how many of those are totally new, ported or perhaps cross-compatible with older QNX devices.
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Then it unveiled so-called Sleekbooks, which basically hold the same promise as Ultrabooks, except that for whatever reason (AMD processors, a too-thick chassis) they don't meet Intel's official Ultrabook requirements.
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