Sentence examples for going back on a promise from inspiring English sources
A flurry of late filings are common in the days and hours before a scheduled execution, but adding to the unusual situation in Arkansas, drug companies recently joined the debate, asking courts to block the use of their drugs and, in one case, accusing the state of misleading the company and then going back on a promise to return the drugs.
His counterpart, Adam Stoll, then accused Mr. McCall of going back on a promise not to engage in negative campaigning.
Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury's, has been accused of going back on a promise he made to local campaigners at a meeting in August last year.
"Launching his campaign by going back on a promise to voters would be dishonest, and exposes his politics of hope as empty rhetoric out of a typical politician".
Most of the footage used to construct the fictional report was recorded during the second trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky, who was arrested on charges of fraud in 2003, after he appeared to challenge Mr. Putin by raising the issue of rampant corruption during a live television broadcast and going back on a promise to stay out of politics.
Since the deal means going back on a promise not to privatise Gaz de France, the unions see it as a ploy to sell the utility by stealth: a strike has been called next week.In the case of the abduction and murder of Ilan Halimi, there was frustration among French Jews that it took so much time to recognise its anti-Semitic nature (see article).
The decision to block the site has also sparked condemnation from Malaysians, who said the government has gone back on a promise not to censor the internet.
First they go back on a promise to accept unaccompanied child refugees from Syria and now they are openly putting innocent children at risk.
Oupa Lebogo, general secretary of the Creative Workers Unionn of South Africa, said the World Cup organising committee went back on a promise to consult it about the concert.
Last winter, a wave of popular acclaim, carefully staged by the governing General People's Congress GPCC), "forced" the president to go back on a promise not to run in the elections set for September 20th.
As my colleagues Neil MacFarquhar and Alan Cowell report, the Syrian authorities on Friday went back on a promise to allow a Red Cross convoy with food and medical supplies into Baba Amr, a rebellious neighborhood in the city of Homs where thousands of residents have endured weeks of heavy bombardment.
