He is only promising a draft bill: the last reform, in the 1950s, took 12 years.
But Mr Hu did not offer hard numbers either, only promising a reduction by a "notable amount".
He is only promising to publish, through the Office of National Statistics, the sort of analysis already available through the Institute of Public Policy Research IPPRR).
The trusts' organisers are trying to reduce the risk of flops by allowing only promising artists whose work is already selling to join.
In answers to parliamentary questions submitted by Matthew Pennycook, the shadow Brexit minister, the government already appears to have watered down its commitment to replicate EU employment protections, only promising to do so "wherever practical".
In fairness, new road projects take time to plan - but road lobbyists groaned to discover Alexander was only promising further feasibility studies on the endlessly discussed A303 and other routes he mentioned.
A fifth resident, Wu Jinyao, a retired construction worker who is recovering from oral cancer, did complain that the government was too frugal in only promising an extra month's payment of disability allowances in the coming fiscal year starting on April 1.
"Those who deforested illegally should go to jail," declares his son, Darci Junior.The only promising aspect of the new code, thinks Roberto Smeraldi of Amazônia Brasileira, a green NGO, is that it offers benefits such as subsidised loans to landowners who have always stuck by the rules, or who are reforesting faster than the law demands.
(She posited a suggestion that undergraduate schools adopt interview habits like those of business schools, in which only promising applicants are granted interviews, heightening the value of the meeting, and giving those students not admitted an earlier, less personalized let-down).
They're only promising that the game will run on the PC, at first, though they pledge to port it elsewhere if they raise enough cash.
With Palm only promising "by the end of the first half of 2009", they've still got nearly a full 6 months to crack out the bugs, so we won't judge them too much.
