Sentence examples for avoid promises from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bloomberg, who will need the Bush administration's financial help in getting through the city's budget woes next year, has been careful in other instances to avoid promises to directly lobby the White House.

It's not always good to avoid promises, because it can hurt some people emotionally or anger them.

The abuser may damage the condom without telling her, the abuser may engage in unprotected sex with HIV or an STD without telling her, or she may have sex to avoid promised physical abuse".

Hollande's campaign has been plodding and cautious, sticking largely to his manifesto, vowing that the rich would pay the highest price for getting France out of the crisis with tax raises, while deliberately avoiding promises to deliver too much.

He has had the latitude to make promises to protect health spending and clamp down on bankers, while avoiding promises to reverse recent tax rises.This emphasis on ideas may seem a rather lofty way of explaining the success of European conservatives during the recession, and the struggle of their allies in younger democracies to find a coherent and convincing voice.

Write down the possible consequences of avoiding promises.

... The instinct in both US parties is to avoid extravagant promises regarding the Middle East.

While providers shouldn't be expected to fulfill every request, they also cannot be allowed to avoid making promises.

Life is hard enough, and you don't have to be a yahoo to avoid what promises to be, despite many critical assurances otherwise, depressing.

"There's no smoking gun," he adds.To avoid what promises to be a pricey court battle, four of the five publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and finally Penguin have settled with the DoJ, without conceding guilt.

But I try to avoid making promises for my future self.