promise

How To Use promise In A Sentence

• WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
• While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.
• In her acceptance speech, the winner thanked the almighty and promised to do even better at the all-India level.
• You can't help thinking that the promise of that final inspection adds a little extra sparkle to the finished product. Times, Sunday Times
• An extra ￡10 million in foreign aid has been promised.
• One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
• 'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]). A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
• The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
• He promised more punctual and reliable services. Times, Sunday Times
• They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.