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"But listen, you must promise never to tell anyone." "I promise."
You have to stand up in court and promise to tell 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'.
I promised the babysitter that we'd be home by midnight.
She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I reckon she's just stringing me along.
She felt encouraged by their promise of support.
Voters are bound to be mistrustful of a government that has broken so many promises.
The prime minister may now be regretting her impetuous promise to reduce unemployment by half.
The company has not kept faith with its promise to invest in training.
Instead, it exhilarates them with illusions and promises, which can intoxicate but cannot produce results.
He immediately gave himself up and promised to name his accomplices and own up to all his crimes if pardoned.
Patterns of butterfly diversity and promising topics in natural history and ecology.
The analogy suggests that speculation makes a claim, promises something to the community, while contributing nothing at all to other scientists.
Both the process of legislative bargaining and its nation-building object promised to slowly forge a nonzero sum game out of economic rivalry.
The most recent systematic review (4), carried out by an orthopedist, supports these (very promising) findings.
Agencies need to match users' expectations by producing what they have promised.
We suggest that considerations of host sociality and intraspecific interactions represent promising lines of inquiry.
However, since it cannot make any metaphysical promises to its adherents, one would expect that not everybody is "born" to live it.
Now it promised to become a tool for fractionating the cytoplasm of normal cells.
However, this does not mean the novel endorses the manuals' promises.
I indicate how it promises to help alleviate some difficulties facing modern practical ethics.
The difficulty, therefore, is that an inability to access the economic welfare and security that social citizenship promises inhibits any prospect of real inclusion.
A usurper is climbing the steps to the throne, and he promises changes.
To some the year 1918 promised defeat ; certainly there seemed little prospect of the war's end.