Sentence examples for getting promises from inspiring English sources

These larger numbers have begun to circulate even as American officials admit they are having trouble getting promises for much more than $1 billion at Madrid.

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

A majority or large minority in society feels that they are not benefiting from government programs, that they keep getting promises that are never delivered, that politics is broken that's been a feeling that's been building up.

The group disrupted trading at the New York Stock Exchange, unfurling a banner on the floor, invaded St. Patrick's Cathedral with a civil disobedience action against the Catholic Church and shouted down Democratic presidential candidates, like Bill Clinton, getting promises from them on fighting the AIDS epidemic.

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.

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

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.

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

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