Polite and steely, he is simply cast as the good guy instead of fulfilling the role.
Of course, some people might say that hip-hop betrayed the promise of Kgositsile and the Last Poets, instead of fulfilling it.
Instead of fulfilling customers' orders, Knight's computers went on an out-of-control spree of rapid-fire buying and selling.
He said he expects the president to lead the Democrats toward the Republicans, instead of fulfilling the promises Mr. Obama made during the campaign.
She graduated from Bard College in New York in 1948, but instead of fulfilling her dream of studying medicine, she married William Straus, a German Jewish immigrant 12 years her senior, who had come to study agriculture at the University of California.
The greater part of modern theatre music suffers from the mistake of seeking to repeat the scenes passing on the stage, instead of fulfilling its own proper mission of interpreting the attitudes of the persons represented.
"Instead of fulfilling their charge to create affordable housing for deserving New Yorkers, these defendants looked for ways to line their own pockets," the United States attorney in Brooklyn, Loretta E. Lynch, said in a statement.
But once on the road, ambitions can change, and where the King was concerned, this came around 1960 when, until his incredible '68 comeback concert, he spent most of the decade making 27 fairly rubbish films instead of fulfilling his original dream of musical greatness.
Such was the climate last night when the Jets deflated the Patriots, 20-19, in a dazzling renewal of their rivalry as Belichick, who joined the Patriots as head coach instead of fulfilling his Jets contract as Bill Parcells's successor, returned to Giants Stadium.
"Gillman and others knew this company was headed for closure," said Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state's attorney, "and instead of fulfilling their legal obligations to their creditors and their moral obligations to their employees, they devised a scheme to benefit themselves".
