In Thomas Jefferson's mind, promising freedom to the very people whom British slave traders had enslaved constituted George III's last, and most unforgivable, act of treachery.
After countless trailers promising even more mind blowing action sequences and shocking twists that will leave viewers stunned, season four of Game of Thrones finally returned to our screens.
Fellow actor and X-Men film franchise star Hugh Jackman also stole the limelight from the other 998 of the nation's best minds, promising to lobby for more Australian actors to come home as his "big idea" for the future planning summit.
Anthony and Gloria Patch are both selfish and promising: His mind is literary, her face is cinematic.
For some inspiration, take a look at our previous coverage of Plazes (currently a sponsor) and SellABand; last week also saw the launch of MindMeister, a promising online mind mapping collaboration tool.
Zawahiri urged Zayyat to change his mind, even promising that he could secure political asylum for him in London.
And it can't hurt that the new (well, newish) Brooklyn gives bohemian early-20th-century Paris a run for its money when it comes to canny self-promotion, promising intoxications of the mind and body that appeal to college graduates looking for the next buzz and television producers looking for the next big thing.
A friend sent it to me last year, promising it would blow my mind.
At the time, the company said that to give customers peace of mind, it was promising "to pay the full target value on mortgage endowment plans".
But iMindi's focus on creating these mind melds is promising.
Unbeaten Cleverly refused to be drawn in to mind games, instead promising to make Krasniqi his 26th victim and take a step closer to securing a unification showdown with Bernard Hopkins.
