Sentence examples for keeps a promise from inspiring English sources

Maggie demands that her sister-in-law, Justine, keeps a promise she made 30 years ago to burn an effigy of their old arch-enemy.

And it keeps a promise that is implicit in our form of government: that a government instituted to secure our rights must be a limited government.

But at least it's not as bad as Beijing.As the National People's Congress opened there this week, Chinese spokesmen reiterated that 2017 is to be the year when China keeps a promise to Hong Kong made in the Basic Law, the constitution it adopted on its reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997: that Hong Kong's chief executive will be chosen by "universal suffrage".

In all sincerity, this moment should be beheld as one of those rare times when a public officeholder keeps a promise.

About a mother who can't protect her child and about the father who keeps a promise that he will.

In "deferred prosecution" agreements the Justice Department agrees not to prosecute a bank for crimes it has committed, if it keeps a promise not to commit those crimes again.

He has not kept a promise to pay $10,000 a month.

He kept a promise, ostensibly made in jest, to Kurdin.

ASEAN also rallied around Myanmar, despite its failure to keep a promise to move towards democracy.

They want to keep a promise to balance the federal budget by 2011.

"He is very big on this 'make a promise, keep a promise' thing," said Mitchell Moss, an informal adviser.