Sentence examples for promised than from inspiring English sources

Far more was promised than was achieved.

Creating good-paying jobs is any mayor's goal, but is easier promised than done.

They are taking different tacks, and some are closer to the full disclosure they have promised than others.

In practice, Scott has fallen for a series of women who seem to have been more taken with the voice and the fabulous career it promised than with the man.

Yet, despite pressure from assorted European leaders, the co-operation may be more promised than actual.Yuri Chaika, Russia's attorney-general, said that the British officers would be allowed to make no arrests nor question witnesses directly; extradition is more or less unthinkable.

At the very least, he reckoned that Mr Brown could end the rebellion if he wanted to and that it was as much in his interests as in Mr Blair's for him to do so.Mr Brown does not need convincing that it would be better to become leader through the "stable and orderly transition" that Mr Blair has frequently promised than to do so by bloody putsch.

But a new Colombia is easier to promise than to bring about.

"But it seems as though the PRI delivers more of what it promises than the other parties".

WASHINGTON — Like flossing or losing weight, saving energy is easier to promise than to actually do — even if you are the Department of Energy.

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that American Life is better for what it promises than what it delivers, and that it is better in theory than practice.

This year, it promised better than that.