Sentence examples for promising handouts from inspiring English sources
For years Congress dominated nationally by ignoring how growth is sustained, but promising handouts, especially to villagers, through make-work schemes, subsidies on food, fuel and fertiliser and cash transfers.
The cabinet contains some frighteningly useless coalition members, and the government's first budget was uninspiring, ducking most of the tough issues and promising more handouts, not fewer.
By promising state handouts to voters and protection for vested interests, he is perpetuating the dysfunctional system that plunged Greece into crisis.
He toured many of the state's 400 or so seats, making excited speeches in labored Hindi (never his strong suit) and lavishly promising more handouts, more populist schemes.
Instead he ranted against giant corporations and treated a man who left office with a Reaganesque job-approval rating of 68% as if he were a wild dog, to be chained and muzzled.In the 2002 congressional elections the Democrats also ignored Mr Clinton, reverting to their pre-1992 selves, promising government handouts and duly getting clobbered.
Promising all sorts of handouts to Georgia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan is not a coherent policy.
The party's de facto leader, Narendra Modi, who used to talk of the need for small government rather than populist handouts, attacked it for promising too little in the way of rations.The new law is good in parts.
It is often a frustrating concept in electoral politics that a candidate can't defeat "Santa Claus," and while liberal candidates have most often exploited this fact by promising the most to voters in terms of economic handouts, McCain has promised the voters an awful lot while outlining relatively no dynamic policy changes to assure that these promises go unbroken.
Perhaps the Fusion Hybrid suggests that Ford, the only Detroit automaker to decline a government handout, really can deliver the advanced fuel-saving technology that it has been promising for years.
