Sentence examples for a simple promise from inspiring English sources

Mr Cameron won the Tory leadership with a simple promise to return the party to power after three electoral defeats.

When the first Kodak appeared in 1888, its maker offered a simple promise: "You push the button -- we do the rest".

Lessig's campaign is based on a simple promise – that his entire goal as president would be passing the "Citizens Equality Act," a series of (attractive) electoral and campaign finance reforms.

Even if the crisis round's agenda were more realistic than Doha's (which isn't obvious), there would be no guarantee that it could be concluded quickly enough to stop the bleeding in global trade.Whatever they think about Doha or about the idea of a crisis round, most economists will agree that a simple promise to resist protectionism will not suffice.

Afterward, at Palestine High School's Wildcat Stadium, where he forged his legend as the most celebrated tailback from East Texas since Earl Campbell, Peterson flashed his million-dollar smile and made a simple promise to the sun-baked crowd of 4,000: "I am going to represent Palestine to my fullest".

When Gov. George E. Pataki set out to deregulate New York's electricity business five years ago, he offered a simple promise: break up the old utility monopolies, and the free market will deliver new power plants and reduce the high rates that were driving employers out of the state.

For the two younger sections, a simpler promise is used: Cub Scouts utilise the normal promise with the omission of the opening 'On my honour' and a change in the final line "to keep the Cub Scout Law", while beaver scouts use a different promise altogether: I promise to do my best, To be kind and helpful, And to love God.

In 1993, a Republican unknown running as an underdog against an incumbent Democratic governor of New Jersey was getting little traction until, fairly late in the campaign, she made a breathtakingly simple promise: if elected, she would cut state income taxes by 10percentt for three consecutive years.

Contracts, that is, must arise not out of a simple, gratuitous promise, but rather out of an exchange of promises, in which each promise constitutes, in Oliver Wendell Holmes's words, "reciprocal conventional inducement" for the other (Holmes 1881: 293 94).

Because the blues are as much of a bedrock for Mr. Nelson as they are for Mr. Marsalis, this held the simple promise of a meeting on common ground.

As the sociologist Alex Preda writes, "Talent for persuasion is key: after all, the public must be convinced to part with their money on the basis of the simple promise that an idea will yield profit in the future".