Sentence examples for extract a promise of from inspiring English sources

Last year, Detroit managed to extract a promise of $25 billion in subsidized loans from Congress in exchange for a new target of 35 m.p.g. by 2020.

As for Mr. Andrews, some Democrats say that even if he had managed to extract a promise of support from Mr. Corzine, it may make little difference in the end.

Frank Thomas was somewhere other than the Chicago White Sox camp in Tucson, which he boycotted for the sixth successive day because he had been unable to extract a promise of more money.

It's paying for your sister and her friends' drinks at QuikTrip and never getting paid back, even though you extract a promise of repayment before you even buy the drinks.

Extract a promise of return for further mending even if the contractor leaves the state; get this in writing.

I ended the meal extracting a promise of several more meals in the future; I wanted friends bearing menus.

Every time he thought he had extracted a promise of better behaviour, Mr Mugabe broke his word.

This maneuver extracted a promise of quick publication from Science, which Mr. Miller accepted, his former student Jeffrey L. Bada recounted in a recent article in that journal.

After repeatedly stating that he had no interest in the position, Wisconsin representative and 2012 vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan accepted the party's nomination as speaker, but only after he had extracted a promise of support from the Tea Party-aligned House Freedom Caucus.

How the canal started to get clean, as he tells it, is an ornate tale of vintage municipal intrigue: he got a new sewage treatment plant built through horse-trading with Nelson Rockefeller and extracted a promise of financing to restore the flushing tunnel from a congressman weakened by a sex scandal.

From the year of George's birth onwards, his father, Leonard Calvert was subjected to repeated harassment by the Yorkshire authorities, who in 1580 extracted a promise of conformity from him, compelling his attendance at the Church of England services.