Sentence examples for promised like from inspiring English sources

Canada was a second-half team, officials promised, like the '78 Yankees.

Labour Labour has promised, like the Tories, to protect the education budget, but has said that funding will go up in line with inflation.

The losses are expected to continue for the current business year, and the company has yet to carve out the new areas for profit that it has long promised, like smartphones and tablet computers.

It looks, as promised, like a Castro-size Cuban cigar, and it comes with a pack of spun-sugar matches and a little cup filled with whipped coffee custard.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last September, President Xi promised: "Like an arrow shot that cannot be brought back, we will forge ahead against all odds to meet our goals of reform".

Let's hope the bolder BBC2 arts programming now promised, like the narrative poem Let Them Eat Chaos from Kate Tempest, which followed Railway Nation, will have a clear sense of whether it is intended as a platform for artists, or is actually aspiring to be art.

"We've heard promises like that before," he said.

But election promises, like repealing laws that largely shield security forces from scrutiny and demilitarizing the state, went unfulfilled.

He criticizes their progress in fulfilling his campaign promises, like increasing the stock of emergency housing and spots in public kindergartens.

Mr Khatami promises, like others before him, to boost non-oil exports, but both manufacturing and farming are in trouble, partly because of state interference.

She didn't promise, like Betty Crocker, to make cooking easier; instead, she promised to make it fun and interesting -- and did.