Sentence examples for dispensing promises from inspiring English sources

The smooth 45-year-old polyglot lawyer, with his distinctive shiny pate and plausible manner, had made himself popular with many of the associations that ultimately decided his fate by charging around the world dispensing promises about increased development funding and greater investment in grassroots football around the globe.

There, according to the Tribune, Daley aides dispensed promises or threats in the form of parks and schools and other local pork.

How did he get away with dispensing outrageous promises — like a vow to buy his daughter's school a planetarium — when he almost never picked up a dinner check and his wife didn't even know whether he had a bank account?

During a four-state visit over three days this week, he dispensed counsel and promises of support to candidates in what he said he considered four of the most competitive House races.

The most ominous sign isn't the debut of a new online gaming service, OnLive, which promises to dispense with the need for consoles or game discs entirely (see "Will OnLive Kill The Game Console?").

It offers 50 craft beers, with 36 on draft — all dispensed, the operators promise, at proper temperatures and listed on the menu in useful groupings, according to style.

An announcement that Britain will soon stop dispensing aid to India also promises, in the longer term, to put relations on a more even footing.

The days of dispensing paltry praise for pence, Amazon promises, are over.

A race which had held such promise ultimately dispensed as much sadness as joy.

I have all but promised to dispense another dollop of my feel-good federal funds potion before our next meeting on May 15.

A prototype ATM promises to further speed visits by directly dispensing ARV pills; one day, it is hoped, similar pill machines in shopping malls could make some clinic visits unnecessary.