Sentence examples for contained promises from inspiring English sources

The letter contained promises of a continuation of funds for training, skills and scientific research, and regional relocation grants.

Both the Liberal and Conservative party manifestos for the 1886 general election contained promises to introduce elected local authorities.

Omina (omens) texts containing promises or predictions are also known.

As narratives that contain promises clearly exemplify, narratives present characters in such a way that evaluations of what they do or suffer are ingredient in the very meaning of these events.

To be fair to the Nationals leader, Warren Truss, and the agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce, they never claimed the deal contained financial promises.

The speech contained no promises to act on electoral reform, but included a commitment to publish a draft bill setting out precisely how a re-elected Labour government would introduce an elected House of Lords.

But experts said the document only contained vague promises that would do little to curb the North's nuclear program.

Scientific American said that Hubbard's book contained "more promises and less evidence per page than any publication since the invention of printing", while The New Republic called it a "bold and immodest mixture of complete nonsense and perfectly reasonable common sense, taken from long acknowledged findings and disguised and distorted by a crazy, newly invented terminology".

A San Remo pasta special ($14.95) contained the promised shrimp, sun-dried tomatoes and arugula but was short on sauce -- and flavor.

To win support, the initiative contained a promise of increased bonus payments to retirees if the pension fund's performance exceeded its target.

And it contained a promise from all parties to bring about the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons by May 22, 2000, the third anniversary of the Irish referendum on the agreement, which overwhelmingly endorsed it.