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They wanted billions, but were only promised a share of £360m worth of Caribbean-wide infrastructure projects.

Hundreds showed up at a tense meeting recently to berate and heckle officials about the disruption they have faced, but were only promised more of it, with weeks of perimeter fences and security lockdown laying ahead.

But Al-Ejla told me that when he went to the UN office to collect his check, they claimed he was only promised $10,700, and they would pay him in two installments.

"For so many years there were only promises," he added, shaking his finger at Mr. Karzai as he spoke on behalf of the people of Marja, "and the people have run out of patience".

But another hairstylist, who was cutting a client's hair, said, "That's only promises".

"Zero liability promises on debit cards are only promises, they're not the law," he said.

Its promises -- and they are only promises at the moment -- are a post-cold-war watershed.

As Peter Drucker noted: "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes...but no plans".

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Cornwallis also worked to get support from Catholics, but was only able to make the vaguest promises concerning their rights due to the high-level resistance to the idea.

"They were only political promises," says Bernard Woolley, attempting to comfort Jim Hacker in the 1984 Party Games episode of Yes, Minister.