No one would donate that kind of money if they did not trust Oprah and expect that she would consistently follow through on her promise.

如果人们不相信奥普拉并且预期她将一如既往地践行她的诺言，没有人会捐出那些钱。

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For if the inheritance comes from the law it no longer is from promise, but God granted to Abraham through promise.

因为承受产业，若本乎律师，就不本乎应许，但神是凭着应许，把产业赐给亚伯拉罕。

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For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

因为承受产业，若本乎律法，就不本乎应许。但神是凭着应许，把产业赐给亚伯拉罕。

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This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of no more funny business from the president.

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If we are a nation of promise breakers who borrows with no sense of the moral imperative to repay, our IOUs become worthless.

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"They got another million dollars with, really, no additional collateral, other than a promise that if he didn't do well, they'd go get it from the federal government, " Mitchell says.

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