However, some readers will feel they have a good case for breach of narrative promise.

然而，有些读者将会感到一种对叙事承诺的违背。

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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

按你们窥探那地的四十日，一年顶一日，你们要担当罪孽四十年，就知道我与你们疏远了。

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A party who fails to fulfill their promise within the time provided is, therefore, in breach of a fundamental term of the contract and the other party may Sue for damages or specific performance.

谁的一方未能履行其承诺的时间内提供的，因此，在性能上违反了一个基本的条款合同，另一方当事人可以起诉要求赔偿或具体。

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Those are the facts necessary to satisfy the elements of a claim for, say, breach of contract: promise, consideration, failure to perform, causation and damages, or the requirements of an affirmative defense: impossibility of performance, for instance.

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The plaintiffs alleged claims of breach of contract, breach of promise, and lost profits arising from contracts related to a yellow pages listings service.

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