This is a promising cause that can soften and mature factional politics.
"Populism, Yea, Yea," the show's opening number, is performed by a group of sensitive and oversexed early-19th-century Americans aching for an outlet for all that pent-up adolescent energy and promising to cause major damage when they find one.
During Mr. Lieberman's round of caucus visits, he wooed members with old-fashioned political appeals, reminding them of votes he has made in support of their pet causes, promising future support.
And now, it seems, the prime minister, David Cameron, is the latest convert to the cause, promising to "apply the principles of garden cities" as part of the government's overhaul of planning in England launched last week.
A handful of studies using LSD and psilocybin (the psychedelic compound found in mushrooms) has turned into a steady trickle, and the results have been promising to her cause.
In the meantime, given that Alzheimer's is a disease for which almost every drug trial ends in disappointment, the fact that these latest results are promising should be cause for quiet optimism for the growing number of people it affects.
The voluminous recordings played in court left little doubt that Mr. Defreitas had tried to push the plot forward: he videotaped the airport, traveled to Guyana and Trinidad searching for like-minded Muslim militants, and frequently boasted of the damage the attack would cause — promising that it would be "worse than the World Trade Center".
Polymorphisms causing amino acid changes are promising candidates for causative QTN/QTINDELs.
A former army paratrooper from a poor family, he rose to power by seizing on the swelling discontent among Venezuela's poorest masses, promising to champion their causes against what he denounced as the corrupt forces of the old establishment.
Even though the loyalists gained support for their cause by promising to expel all foreigners, pragmatism quickly displaced impractical idealism.
