Sentence examples for form of promises from inspiring English sources

The debt held by the public excludes $2.5 trillion the government owes to itself, largely in the form of promises to pay future Social Security benefits.

And clever because he threw a few bones to the non-liberals listening in the form of promises about charter schools.

The bids cost millions of dollars to produce, and the "bidding" takes the form of promises of more and more lavish new stadiums to host the games, new luxury hotels for the use of FIFA officials and well-heeled fans and other amenities.

First, Schapp recognizes several forms of contracts and argues that they can be described as more or less complex forms of promises.

This also employs people from the street and encourages donations from diners in the form of meal promises; every Monday afternoon, the doors are then opened to feed the homeless.

This is, at best, a palliative.California's second problem is a mountain of liabilities: some $355 billion, mostly in the form of unfunded promises to provide pensions and health care to retired public servants.

It found that they counted as "unserved" customers who in fact had access to wireless 3G networks, and hence spent a lot of money on customers who already had access to at least some form of broadband.CAF promises to bridge this "rural-rural divide", in which some have access to state-of-the-art broadband and others have nothing.

The essence of the Davidic innovation was the idea that, in addition to divine election through Samuel and public acclamation, David had received God's promise of an eternal dynasty; a conditional (perhaps earlier) and an unconditional (perhaps later) form of this promise exist in Psalms, chapter 132 and 2 Samuel, chapter 7, respectively.

It comes in the form of a promise to buy shares over three years, at the pre-deal price.

Détente eventually arrived in the form of a promise from Clifford Grodd, the president of Paul Stuart, to look beyond Forty-fifth Street for his future staffing needs.

The letter, a form of collateral, promised that he would step down if there had been no I.R.A. moves on weapons by Feb. 12.