Sentence examples similar to elicit promises from inspiring English sources

It has elicited promises from dozens of music festivals for a 50 50 gender split in lineups by 2022.

Senators have since routinely asked attorney general nominees at confirmation hearings questions eliciting promises to resist any effort by a president to intrude upon matters of prosecutorial discretion.

Diplomats have elicited promises from Chinese officials that no new mills will be constructed.

Requests like these rarely elicit good promises.

Only because American antiterrorist resolve in Iraq was not lost on the ayatollahs of Iran, and because tens of millions of young Persians hunger for the democracy they can see in store for neighboring Arabs, were French and German diplomats able to elicit vague promises of W.M.D. restraint in Teheran.

He stays on the phone long enough for Ryan to pitch the film again and elicit a promise that he will have the trailer watched.

If defeat can never be viewed in a positive light by the participants in elite sport, it was possible amid the short-term pain of Saturday's loss to New Zealand to elicit the promise of long-term gain for England.

Fewer!" elicited the promise: "Then let us take care of that".

It elicited a promise from Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan, to end cross-border terrorism.

Mr. Wiener said he had spoken to Mr. Bronstein and elicited a promise to control customers.

After declining the prince's marriage proposal for several years, Masako finally accepted 11 years ago, but only after eliciting his promise to protect her.