More radical technologies, however, promise more interesting dilemmas than just risking a case of tennis elbow.
The assembly of financial supermarkets appears at first glance to promise more tangible benefits.
Big retail chains also find it easier to attract advertisers, because they can promise more screens in more places.
While they can't promise to get you off the ground any faster, they can promise more fun while you wait.
Then Chris Dodderingfool and Barney Frankenstein led the people of the kingdom to promise more than they had, in return for new hovels and huts.
The main candidates all promise more federal police and tougher sentences.
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Maybe so, but competition may promise more than it delivers.
The South African president said that the G8 had shown commitment towards Nepad, the development programme for Africa in which rich countries promise more aid and investment in return for efforts by African leaders to raise standards of government and monitor each other's performance.
The fourth phase will combine mobile, big data and analytics to deliver on the promise of more meaningful and relevant communications.
Should either of these fail to respond to the current fiscal stimulus, officials promise that more of the same will be tried.
The reason Boeing has stated for using these batteries in the first place was their promise of more power for less weight.
Growing up with the promise of more Star Wars films, nothing could have let me down harder than the trilogy Lucas eventually produced.
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But this is unlikely without at least a clear promise of more say in running the fund, hitherto an institution dominated by Europe and America.
And despite attestations that the phone will absolutely, positively be privy to an ICS upgrade, that promise seems more wispy talking point than concrete rollout reality.
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The company has been successful in attracting a number of MCI shareholders to its cause, drawn by the bigger bid and promise of more cash up front.
Dropbox has made huge inroads into users, with the promise of more storage being offered to users if they get others to sign up to the service.
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Any hint of weakening data, which is actually a sign of reality and healing returning to the economy, is quickly met with the promise of more disastrous money printing.
"None of these applications, from sports-themed mini-games to high-speed arcade outings, seem to promise much more than what you'd find on your Wii console today, " he wrote after the event.
"If properly harnessed to unleash their full potential, these trends hold the promise of more growth, much less poverty, and accelerating shared prosperity for African countries in the foreseeable future, " said World Bank economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole.
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On the Liberal Democrat promise of more powers for the National Assembly, which is also a Plaid Cymru manifesto commitment, she said Plaid Cymru would have more MPs in Wales and would therefore be in the position of more influence.
He said the party had delivered on real terms council tax cuts, new apprenticeships and economic regeneration schemes, adding that these were "things where people can trust the record of action of the Lib Dems locally and our promise of more".
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But his reputation for honesty in the supervisor's job, and his promise of more open decision-making, won him support from a broader range of voters who suspected that too many favours were being swapped behind closed doors between the Brown administration and its friends in business.
While speaking at a 2009 Prostate Cancer Foundation event, I made a promise to more than 100 of the best prostate cancer researchers of the world: "I will make certain that, in my lifetime, I will get a blue ribbon out there to match every pink ribbon!"
The more frequently you fulfill your promise, the more trusted you become.
But to put an end to the violence, local experts agree, the government will have to do more than just promise better security and more jobs, as Ms Yingluck did.
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Also today, the U.S. military released more prisoners as part of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's promise to free more than 2, 500 Iraqis held in U.S.-run jails.
Could I have gotten just five more people, 24 more people to just get out of bed and do what they needed to do or feeling the promise of four more years?
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