Sentence examples for outrageous promises from inspiring English sources

He foments strife, lies, and murders and makes outrageous promises he has no intention of keeping.

How did he get away with dispensing outrageous promises — like a vow to buy his daughter's school a planetarium — when he almost never picked up a dinner check and his wife didn't even know whether he had a bank account?

If by the end of the year their claims do not match up to the Audit Bureau of Circulation's figures, they have to reimburse advertisers.Hence the increasingly outrageous promises and the use of brown envelopes with green windows and eagles stamped on them, designed to look like letters from the government.

Here he used his money and access to power and the media to intimidate ordinary people; he made outrageous promises to hoodwink the gullible (including, alas, the Scottish government); and he showed a breathtaking disdain for the environmental toll of his relentless pursuit of personal gain.

From Herbert Hoover's vow to end poverty in 1928, thus proving that the secret of great comedy is indeed great timing, to Bush senior's pledge to read his lips no new taxes, and his son's pledge to hit a golf ball a long way, politics is littered with outrageous promises and whopping great lies.

"I'm not going to make any outrageous promises that we are going to make him world heavyweight champion," she said.

But in the ways we fear most, with Trump's most outrageous campaign promises, he is powerless.

President Bush called WorldCom's accounting "outrageous" and promised that the government would "go after" companies that misled investors.

The news even got the attention of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who called the pricing "outrageous" and promised that she had a plan to take on the issue.

The postponement and potential cancellation of part two of the inquiry was "an outrageous betrayal of promises made to victims of press abuse and to the British people by the former prime ministers", he said.

Calling the reports "outrageous," he has promised to "make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this".