Critics have pointed to the fact that neither document contains solid promises, but they have missed the point.
These guidelines were also later translated into solid promises where Apple said it would remove outdated and abandoned apps from the App Store as part of a larger purge.
They can be reached, and trust partly restored, by solid promises on healthcare, wage protection and fair taxation.
Aiming for the younger people in the crowd, he brought up student loans and other worries of today's college students, but made no solid promises.
And better still if the Americans agree to let Turkish troops into northern Iraq, together with a solid promise that the United States will not back Kurdish independence.That is what the AK government has been holding out for during weeks of tense negotiations.
I doubt if his Liberal Democrat party, or Menzies Campbell's for that matter, would ever have gone into government with the Conservatives, and I doubt too if he would have ever been prepared to break such a solid promise as was made on tuition fees.
In his first public speech since taking up the post, delivered to invited representatives of quangos, museums, theatres and arts organisations at London's Roundhouse, the only solid promise of new money came from a commitment that arts, heritage and grassroots sport would receive an increased share of lottery profits, back to the levels they received when the lottery was founded in 1994.
Long ripe for regeneration, developers have been wary of making a move in this surprisingly cut-off quarter of the capital despite the opportunity to build shops, offices, hotels, places of entertainment and up to 16,000 homes here – until the arrival, or solid promise, of a Tube line.
Long-term, the company appears to offer solid promise but as an IPO, investors seeking a strong opening and heady first-day gains won't find it here.
Long term, Hexion Specialty Chemicals appears to offer solid promise, or at least solid prospects, but investors seeking a strong opening pop and heady first-day gains won't find either in this IPO.
Critics suggested this was the Prime Minister downgrading what had been a solid promise pre-referendum to something slightly more ambiguous, dependent on a new timescale based around the proposed restrictions on Scottish MPs.
