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Last week, it was reported that President Yoweri Museveni had blocked the anti-gay Bill, but gay rights activists in Kampala stressed that he hadn't done so but had only "promised and expressed his concerns" about the legislation.

Mr. Gottfried said that Mr. Pataki did not set aside money for the full 6,000 units of housing endorsed by the task force, and had only promised to do so.

"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart rages, "what time is it in New York?" Casablanca dramatised, in a way that its predecessors had only promised, all the moral issues at stake for the US in the war.

A hearing was ultimately held at which the former Assistant State's Attorney testfie d that he had only promised to help Hamer if Hamer's story 'about being a reluctant participant' in the robbery was borne out, and not merely if Hamer would testify at petitioner's trial.

Obama, by contrast, has only promised a 30%reductionn.

Thus far Mr Cain has only promised a decision by Monday on whether to remain in the race.

The Nauruan government has only promised temporary visas of up to 10 years for those determined to be refugees.

We've never made such a claim; we've only promised what we can deliver: enhanced energy security, energy for our economic recovery and jobs that Americans so desperately need.

If that can be achieved, the way would be clear for Mr Cameron to hold the membership referendum next summer, although he has only promised to call the vote by the end of 2017.