Sentence examples for lost promises from inspiring English sources

The best of these tales are beautifully wrought elegies for lost youth, lost promises and lost loves.

That's actually the title of 1996 country song sung by Deana Carter pining away about lost promises from her sweeatheart.

Notably, the manifesto adopted by the Labour Party for elections in 1983, which the party lost, promised abolition of the House of Lords.

In response to the coup, Honduras was kicked out of the Organisation of American States (OAS), and lost promised foreign aid worth 6% of GDP.

We also follow Wolf's growing disenchantment, first with what she sees as the lost promise of the German Democratic Republic, then with "today's utopia-free situation".

As a result, Honduras has lost promised foreign aid worth 6% of its GDP, and the United States has revoked the visas of several officials in the de facto government.

The sharp tone highlighted the lost promise of the 107th Congress, which came into office after the tumultuous 2000 election as the most closely divided Congress since the Eisenhower administration.

"What about these guys?" he asks, pointing at a Rage Against the Machine CD. "Do you think they're for real?" He laments the lost promise of a local band called the Posies.

The original point of the Statue was to celebrate the end of slavery after the Civil War and remind the Statue's country of origin of the lost promise of its own revolution.

The Guardian's review described the song as "a requiem of lost promise but few regrets … the backward guitar notes slipping and sliding like the Doors singer in his final bath".

It is also a story of Stax's demise, in the mid-seventies, and an elegy to the label's lost promise and to musicians who died in their prime — Redding was just twenty-six when the plane carrying him and his backing band, the Bar-Kays, themselves just teen-agers, crashed in Wisconsin, in 1967.