Sentence examples for excessive promises from inspiring English sources

Perrigo fought off Mylan's $26 billion offer last year, in part by making excessive promises about how well the company could perform on its own.

Ken Livingstone is the ghost of Labor past, an unsettling reminder to Prime Minister Tony Blair of the antic politics, overheated oratory and excessive promises that the British leader believes made the party he pointedly now calls New Labor unelectable for two decades.

At one point he explained why he had refused during the campaign to discuss what raises or contract provisions he planned to offer the city's unions by saying, "At the risk of credentialing the attacks on my self-confidence and arrogance, since I thought I would be elected at the start of this campaign, I resisted making excessive promises in the belief that I'd have to keep them".

No fully fledged attack on wealth; no anti-business rhetoric; no wavering on fiscal prudence; no excessive social promises.

Interventions that target the lifestyle behaviors of adolescents, to improve poor dietary quality and reduce excessive sedentariness, promise to reduce the risk of developing T2D.

Appearing before an African-American audience in Harlem on Saturday, Anthony D. Weiner criticized the Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy as excessive and promised that, if he became mayor, he would not use the tactic "as a racial tool".

"What I see here is that Obama campaigned against excessive secrecy, promised to have the most transparent government in American history, signed presidential directives in his first day of office with a lot of fanfare, continues to say in speeches and interviews and press conferences that transparency is a high priority for him, and it hasn't happened," Downie said.

Such synergy has recently become a dirty word among investors, evocative of the excessive prices, unfulfilled promises and clashing personalities that have confounded many recent media mergers.

Behaviors like breaking promises, excessive mooching, and disregard of the damage caused by their negligence are all signs of deeper issues that are likely impacting more than just their bank account.

This crisis is sometimes portrayed as the result of corporate America's excessive generosity in making promises to its workers.

The researchers present possible results of their projects and create excessive expectations and hope among patients with their promises of rapid therapeutic success [ 60, 70].