Sentence examples for prior promises from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON -- A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

I contacted the firm, asking why they went over their prior promise.

On the face of it, this entirely general and comprehensive maxim leaves no room for considerations of prior promise.

Google also reminded Nokia of its prior promise to not enforce IP rights against the Linux Kernel (the core of Google's Android OS).

As Justin Brookman, the Director for the Center of Democracy & Technology's Project on Consumer Privacy, said, "the default law in this country for the sharing of data is that you can do anything you want", with the exception being any prior promise the company has made not to share specific data.

Caprani added that children in conflict regions talked about today wouldn't necessarily be additional to that prior promise.

For presidents like FDR and LBJ, crises, along with popular movements, have served as spurs to greatness in excess of prior promise.

The treaty, the result of a 1923 peace conference in Switzerland, split up the Kurdish population among four different countries and ignored a prior promise for a Kurdish homeland.

Windows Phone 8.1's first update started to roll out today, in keeping with prior timing promises from Microsoft.

Two quick hits from the world of Microsoft before you head off and plunge your upper body in eggnog: A new Windows 10 Mobile build is out for users on both the Fast and Slow rings of the Insider program, and, if you are a regular Windows Phone user running 8.1, you won't get new code until the new year, a retread of prior timing promises.

No one could be bothered to research records showing agreements in process but never completed and/or prior bank promises broken.