The word 'promise' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when expressing an assurance that someone will do something or will not do something. Example: I promise that I will arrive on time tomorrow.
It includes the line "staring at the faces in the rear-view mirror, looking at the promise of the promised land".
you'll always mean the world to me, I promise to do you proud, I love you with all my heart".
Ministers promise to provide for "appropriate oversight arrangements and safeguards", but there is no immediate detail on how the complex web of intelligence and surveillance commissioners and parliamentary oversight might be strengthened.
To date the politician – one of Greece's canniest operators – has managed to maintain approval ratings of close to 70% despite rolling back on almost every promise he has made.
The prime minister will be unable to table his demands for the repatriation of powers before the next election because Clegg has dismissed this strategy as "a false promise wrapped in a union jack".
Only the US – which borrowed massively, restructured its banks and printed money on a historic scale – enjoys anything like a sustainable recovery, and even that's being sustained only by the promise that quantitative easing will go on ad infinitum.
The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, was among the first world leaders he called to promise an "open, independent investigation" of the tragedy, Poroshenko said.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com