Sentence examples for noble promises from inspiring English sources

Its theme is vast, the millennia of beauties and horrors of the sea that stretches from Beirut to Gibraltar, and there are noble promises to create "an exchange of perspectives", but it also contains a trap.

The president, in fulfillment of his noble promises to help the middle class, is about to put his weight behind a Labor Department rule that would hike minimum earnings needed to earn overtime pay, a proposal that would affected 5 million Americans.

Michael Bakari Jordan (his middle name is Swahili for "noble promise"), 27, grew up in New Jersey, the son of a teacher and a caterer.

But given Yale's recent complicity in the censoring of the Muhammad cartoons in a book specifically about the Muhammad cartoons, it represents just one more mark against Yale's noble promise to allow students "to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable".

17, 1374), agreement made between the Polish nobility and their king, Louis I (ruled 1370 82), in which the nobles promised to accept the King's choice of successor in exchange for a charter that guaranteed their basic rights and privileges.

So today's real choice is not whether to redefine marriage but how to do so: as a club only heterosexuals can join or as the noblest promise two people can make.

It sounds noble to promise, as practically every boss in Davos does, that your company will solve all manner of problems unrelated to its core business.

Levin's statement is only one move in the full-court press that Yale's administration is conducting to justify a venture that, like half a dozen Yale-heavy American foreign-policy escapades, was undertaken with noble claims and promises but ended up weakening "the fabric of democracy" and demoralizing liberal education, as editors of openDemocracy put it in introducing my column.

On his return to Saudi Arabia in 2007 he publicly repented, warning his countrymen against al-Qaeda and its promises of noble martyrdom.

However, large-scale sustainable development remains a noble but yet unproven promise full of contradictions and dilemmas.

Its Grill Room promises to uphold noble dining traditions laid down by the Savoy and the Dorchester.