Sentence examples for general promises from inspiring English sources

Once Greece's creditors might have taken general promises; now they want specifics.Second, Europeans worry less today about the market consequences of Grexit.

Mr. Palazzo did not otherwise dwell much on specifics, responding to Mr. Taylor's litany of details with general promises to cut taxes, save jobs rather than lose them, preserve American sovereignty and not turn a blind eye to God.

But it's all too easy to imagine the movement (which, after all, includes a lot of Social Security and Medicare recipients!) being seduced with rhetorical nods to the Constitution, and general promises of spending discipline that never get specific.

Although the general promises an eventual return to civilian government, he has repeatedly said that he considers Mr. Sharif and Ms. Bhutto crooks and that neither is welcome to return to Pakistani politics.

On the first, he made rather general promises; on the second, he sounded a much bolder note as a liberator, democrat and nation-builder, not a conqueror or bully (see article).Whether or not he manages to appease his critics on these points, Mr Bush faces an uphill struggle to achieve his other immediate objective: getting a second resolution through the United Nations Security Council.

The candidates in Brazil's presidential elections have all said education would be a priority for their government, but they have not gone beyond general promises.

The state's attorney general promised Ohio would address these problems.

Troops seized Mr Sharif, airports and a TV studio as the general promised to maintain stability.

Both the S.E.C. and the New York State attorney general promised to intensify investigations into short selling abuses.

The field of piezoelectronics, which aims to turn kinetic energy into electrical energy, offers some general promise.

President Barack Obama said that his attorney general promised a federal probe into the shooting of Brown in August would be rigorous.