"What we don't want is that we promise something that we can't deliver, " Ms. Merkel said.
There is always the promise that something excitingly candid is about to occur, but it almost never does.
Outreach to new users, consolidation of existing users, and a promise of something better for those who have left.
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And now marketers, retailers and businesses are realizing there is a promise of something great in its application: the rise of geo-marketing, geo-social marketing and loyalty marketing.
Along with the promise of something new and fantastic, it brings the fear of commitment, and even worse, the prospect of saddling yourself to a lousy device for two years.
The much-ballyhooed agreement that rescue funds could buy embattled countries' bonds without onerous extra conditions was just a political promise to do something already allowed.
There was only the promise of doing something that felt important.
Regardless of their differences in hardware approach, Google Wallet and Isis each are beginning to show promise in delivering something for consumers and merchants alike that shifts the focus from whether users are swiping, waving or tapping when checking out to the services delivered on top of the payment itself.
His most memorable campaign declaration--his acceptance-speech pledge of "no new taxes"--was a promise not to do something.
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Mr. NORMAN ORNSTEIN (Political Analyst, American Enterprise Institute): In the end he's going to make a judgment about what's more important: one campaign promise, or achieving something grand in a major policy area.
The pledge seams pretty iron-clad, but when asked about this, his top political advisor David Axelrod is a little squishy, describing the president's commitment not as a read-my-lips promise, but as something more aspirational.
So far, only some big multinationals that promise the French government something attractive in return, such as the creation of hundreds of jobs in deprived parts of France, have got the finance ministry's go ahead.
But while Microsoft held to its hardware-free promise, the company had something else up its sleeve.
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And if we end up disagreeing on something, I promise you we will not be disagreeable about it.
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Millions of Iraqis went to the polls to cast ballots, something that generated great promise for the establishment of a democratic system.
However, the box does show promise with XviD and Ogg Vorbis support, something those WMCEs don't do easily.
If you want kids to realize their promise, you have to figure out how to make something seem aspirational to them.
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This season is an important one in the pitching life of Chamberlain, who'd shown such promise in the early moments of his career, but had become something much less promising, undone by injury and other distractions.
The group of roughly 60 people focused on the "Draw Something" franchise, a game that showed tremendous growth and promise before Zynga's acquisition but has seen its popularity pull back since the deal.
If something happened that made it impossible for you to deliver on a promise, speak up and do everything in your power to fix it.
When it comes to creating jobs, closing the opportunity gap, and leaving something better for our future generations, few areas hold as much promise as clean energy.
Of course, what all the parties would really like is the promise of state funding, so they didn't have to grub around for donations from people who might want something in return.
With the promise to deliver value to everybody involved here, to pay back the government, and eventually turn that nothing into something, in exchange for which I got a chance to give you technology and then to run it.
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