Sentence examples for generous promise from inspiring English sources

The older generation made a generous promise to itself then imposed the cost of keeping it on its children and grandchildren.

O, for this generous promise be you bless'd.

"We received a generous promise to write off the debt, or at least a part of it," Mr. Hakim said after meeting with Mr. Putin in the Kremlin.

An essential part of Ms Yingluck's winning manifesto was a generous promise to rice farmers.

He heard them, and made them a generous promise, encouraging them to keep their word; then he sent them back home, and along with them he sent Commius, whom he himself, after subduing the Atrebates, had made king over them.

Making generous promises to the electorate seems to be working.

All the main parties made generous promises about the numbers of apprenticeships they would create if they won the election.

If so, Mr Putin will find it hard to honour the generous promises he made in his campaign, when he seemed to embody government largesse.

Testimony from Gilkes and Safanov, who also received generous promises from the government in exchange for their testimony, was needed to shore up Hetrick's tainted account.

Generous promises have been made year after year, without the money to meet future costs, and in many ways that is irresponsible budgeting.

It turned out that the Islamists, for all their generous promises and organizing prowess, failed to solve some problems (such as unemployment) and made other problems worse (such as terrorism and political crime).