Sentence examples for promises waiting from inspiring English sources

Those who chase their fantasies to Paris or Kenya, Thailand or Morocco usually learn that dreams are promises waiting to be broken: love in a new climate withers as often as it blooms.

With a war raging in Chechnya on Russia's southern border, tight restrictions imposed on information and a propaganda campaign glorifying the military and security services, members of Russia's small liberal elite say that Mr. Putin's pledges to observe human rights and to respect legal and democratic norms are still promises waiting to be fulfilled.

Yet I must confess that in these moments, I find little comfort in lyrical biblical poetry about the promises waiting for us in heaven.

For the colonists, it was like America itself: vast and beguiling, a promise waiting for a people to redeem it.

Stephon Marbury had promised: wait until Friday.

Once this is over, know that you two like each other and fulfill your promise: wait for her to be ready.

After over a year of delays, promises, and waiting, we finally know what's going to be in the Eee Keyboard.

The ruling left dozens of companies promised money waiting in limbo for a new deal.

Yet each appointment promised more waiting rooms full of women who would pull me through.

I emerge from the settling dust generated by my constant crazed job search and find myself asking why I am so easy to reject and where is the job that I was always promised was waiting for me?

This week, Henry Pickavet and I explore Amazon's new cashier-less stores that promise no waiting in line — except to get in — and Uber's newest C-level executive hire.