Sentence examples for promise wrong from inspiring English sources

The second criticism is that the conventional view gets the harm of breaking a promise wrong.

We believe that allowing 3,400 people to be murdered in cold blood and breaking that promise is wrong.

We might criticize a promisor if she does as promised for "wrong" reasons (e.g., reasons of self-interest); but we still believe that such obligations exist, and that one need not act for the right reason to avoid breaching or violating them (though one may thereby fail to respect, fulfill or discharge such obligations) (McConnell 1993; Owens 2012).

There's only one attention-grabbing method left to convey your conviction: promise that, if wrong, you'll do something utterly repugnant.

Bruce Chen is one of the newcomers, and although he is just 24 years old he is already on his third team and trying to right the promise that went wrong someplace.

On the absolute conception, these all mean that each and every action of breaking a promise is a wrong action, whatever else there may be to be said for it.

There is a further distinction to be made, between those expectation theorists that hold that a promisee must have experienced a tangible harm as the result of a broken promise for a wrong to have been committed, and those who hold that the mere disappointment is sufficient.

Acknowledge what you have done wrong, promise not to repeat it and sincerely ask Allah for forgiveness and leniency in any punishment that He may decide to prepare for you.

So much was promised: what went wrong?

Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards agreed that it would be wrong to promise that they could get all American forces out of Iraq by 2013.

Mr Cameron was wrong to promise a referendum in 2017, because the chances are that the mess caused by the euro crisis will not be cleared up by then, and Britons will still not know what sort of club they are voting to stay in or leave.