Now, with its legitimacy affirmed, most of the preliminary work completed and a promising plan for financing maintenance, raising the funds to build the new steeple looms as the final hurdle.
Fighting between government troops and M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has disrupted a promising plan for chimpanzee tourism in Virunga national park, also home to mountain gorillas.
One promising plan calls for wealthy countries to pay those in the tropics to halt the destruction of their immense forests for agriculture and logging.
In a year of mounting troubles, the governor dropped what used to be promising plans to run next year for the United States Senate.
I could talk about my promising plans--interviewing for faculty jobs, working for such and such lab, starting a company--but that would all be hogwash.
I called the insurance carrier with the promising plan.
And I must confess to a wry smile when the New York Times, which repeatedly, vociferously trashed the flat tax when Yours Truly was on the campaign trail, now hails President Putin in an editorial entitled, "Russia's Promising Tax Plan" for "radically simplifying the code and slashing rates".
While there were some uncomfortable moments -- the leaders of Israel and Syria sat near each other not speaking -- the day passed quietly, with some promising developments, including plans for another meeting in November.
He broke into song on a busy street corner, crooning, "Victory is mine!" and declared that the concerns of this city's poor and neglected would now take center stage, promising to oppose city plans for a publicly financed baseball stadium and investment that focuses solely on revitalizing downtown Washington.
