Sentence examples for foreign promises from inspiring English sources

Afghans have learned that foreign promises are rarely to be trusted.

But the Serbs do not trust him or foreign promises that they will be safe.

She said China supported the "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" according to principles set out in the 1994 Agreed Framework, a treaty under which North Korea agreed to renounce nuclear weapons in exchange for foreign promises of energy and fuel.

Those that are close to smuggling routes into Turkey and Lebanon are better armed, though they all grumble that foreign promises of weapons and cash have rarely been fulfilled; most equipment has been bought from local arms dealers, often purloined from army stocks, with donations from wealthy Syrians.

It is five years since Dr. Karadzic was indicted, and local journalists and officials fear that despite all foreign promises, he may get away for good, sneaking into Montenegro and then Serbia, where many other war crimes suspects have found refuge.

He believes that the weapons on the ground will determine the outcome, not foreign promises, threats and measures from air.

Every home secretary comes to office promising to deport dangerous fanatics, just as every foreign secretary promises to stand up to Brussels, every business secretary to "cut red tape", every chancellor to keep taxes down.

The principal beneficiary of any reorientation of foreign policy promises to be neighboring Brazil.

Four years on it is safe to say that for the rest of the world Obama has not delivered on foreign policy promises.

The good news is that an approach that has revolutionized the teaching of foreign languages promises similar gains in economics and other disciplines.

When Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, promises that the idea of moving forward with an avant-garde of countries if it proves impossible to move forward with 25 is "not a threat", one can be sure that it is exactly that.