Sentence examples for get promises from inspiring English sources

The sentences yesterday underscored the perils of perjury by witnesses who get promises of favorable treatment for crimes in exchange for promising to give truthful testimony.

"For one year, we get promises and nothing more," one man shouted in Arabic.

In a kind of Catch-22, Ms. Jory was able to get promises of seed money, but only on the condition that she receive a charter first.

Mr. Kostunica went to Moscow to get promises of natural gas supplies, vital to heat large parts of Serbia, but the Russians, already owed nearly $300 million, are offering only about a month's supply, and that on credit.

A measure of this is the fact that, in April, an international donor conference to support the CPA got promises of $4.5 billion.

"We got promises, we got intentions but we didn't get definitive results that we could bring back to our physicians," said Dr. Marie Kuffner, president of the California Medical Association.

Fisker Automotive plans to build an electric sports car, and the two have got promises of $700 million in U.S. taxpayer money to build sedans in the future.

They keep getting promises of change, and they keep on turning up even when these promises turn into abuse.

But Pentagon figures show that as of July, only 41,000 of 94,000 Awakening fighters have gotten promised jobs.

Workers were not getting promised annual raises, monthly attendance bonuses or the 17 paid holidays a year, beyond their usual one day off a week.

In truth nothing about the movie offers quite as much as gets promised.