Sentence examples for got promises of from inspiring English sources
A measure of this is the fact that, in April, an international donor conference to support the CPA got promises of $4.5 billion.
Other states visited included Ukraine, which may offer a little help in Iraq, and the Czech Republic, which has 100 troops in Iraq and got promises of military equipment.
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.
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.
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.
They keep getting promises of change, and they keep on turning up even when these promises turn into abuse.
The administration of Barack Obama has said it wants to talk to Cuba about practical matters, such as immigration.Some three years after it was first mooted by Hugo Chávez, the Bank of the South got some promises of cash.
"If I hadn't triggered a byelection and joined Ukip, I don't think we'd have got the promise of a referendum".
Is it a coincidence that we get these promises of extended support each time things start to become volatile?
He only did so, as a source told me and as I have previously reported, after he got the promise of $12bn from the Gulf States.
