MINSK, Belarus — With campaign fliers promising "action instead of promises," Yegor Vasilievsky stood outside a busy shopping center here on Friday, drumming up support for a challenger to Belarus's president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.
So today, instead of promises, there was wishing and hoping.
Senator Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, said, "Once again, the Clinton administration appears to be rewarding China for promises made instead of promises kept".
One suggestion that was not adopted, however, was to award universities an excellence designation based on their past achievements alone, instead of promises made in a time-consuming application process.
Instead of promises to hire cops, Garcetti offered more muted goals, telling voters their phone calls to City Hall would be returned, the streets paved, and he'd make job creation a priority.
Instead of the promised turnaround, the bank now expects only 0.3% growth next year.
Then, last year, after two seasons of superior Jets play, instead of the promised epiphany, the world harshly presented itself.
But there, instead of the promised Eldorado, they found a life of slave labour on a fishing ship.
A major sponsor demanded a refund and San Francisco braced for a financial loss instead of a promised bonanza.
A thin sirloin steak priced at $42 was chewy and dry, as was osso buco (a special), which was accompanied by gummy rice instead of the promised polenta.
