Sentence examples for faltered promises from inspiring English sources
They are currently facing a credibility deficit, a credibility crisis even, due to years of overpromising, i.e. the practice of recycling stereotypical lists of promises time and again for various purposes, until the public sphere becomes saturated with faltered promises and extended time-schedules.
Erecting a Mexican-funded wall along the U.S. southern border to curb illegal immigration has been a priority and faltering promise for the current administration.
Although the flow of aid and investment from rich countries to poor has been faltering, China promised $10 billion of cheap credit to Africa in 2009-12 and Brazil has invested $10 billion in the continent since 2003.
As Seattle's early promise faltered, Philadelphia's grew, particularly as it became apparent that Andrew Wenger playing wide left, more than had the measure of his marker DeAndre Yedlin.
The larger efforts at immigration reform also faltered, and the promised new era of Latino activism appeared to lose some of its vigor.
Then there are the candidates whose early promise has faltered, even in states where party registration favors them.
SEOUL, South Korea — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, who swept into power last year with bold promises to revamp the country, then faltered over broken campaign pledges to remove an American base from Okinawa, announced Wednesday that he would step down.
The Syrian pound has faltered, exports have fallen and the government has promised respite with money it will not have for long.
A123 had to cut workers at its new factory in Livonia, Mich., financed in part with the promise of a $249 million government grant, after its battery for one new electric vehicle faltered and required an expensive recall.
Mr. Obama had promised to close the Guantánamo prison within a year of taking office, but the effort faltered amid stiff Congressional resistance.
