Sentence examples for power on the promise from inspiring English sources

Obama swept to power on the promise of change.

"Prime minister Narendra Modi came to power on the promise of uprooting corruption, but still the corruption exists," he says.

They came to power on the promise that they would prove themselves capable of governing, and now their party is poised to cripple the one agency that's uniquely responsible for keeping Americans safe.

Since coming to power on the promise of reforming the paranoid state overseen by his father, Bashar Assad's regime has been blamed for the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a car bomb - which he denies.

When he ran for president in 2005 — the year in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to power — on the promise to distribute some fifty dollars a month to every Iranian family, some urban reformists called on him to withdraw in favor of a rival reformist candidate, Mostafa Moin, a former minister of higher education who appealed to Iran's burgeoning population of university students.

He joined the Labour party aged 16, did his national service as an RAF education officer, and was an economics lecturer at the Welsh College of Advanced Technology before winning his seat in parliament in the 1964 election, which swept Harold Wilson to power on the promise of harnessing the white heat of technological innovation.

The details are expected to be finalised next week and any new commitments Samaras makes will be scrutinised by the electorate, which voted him into power earlier this year on the promise of exacting more lenient conditions from the troika.

Led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the government came to power on the campaign promise that it would spend more on rural infrastructure, health care, education and agriculture.

Mr Modi rode to power in May on the promise of getting India's economy back on track.

It is a tactic which can probably be tried only once and the chances of persuading Robert Mugabe to relinquish power in Zimbabwe on the promise of a prosecution-free exile are slim to non-existent.

Swept into power in 1996 on the promise of alleviating the previous Labor government's $96 billion debt, the Liberal party managed to gloss over the fact that $39.9 billion of it had actually been accumulated under Malcolm Fraser, whose treasurer was none other than John Howard.