It seemed to me that the Gospels, central to my family life, made some fairly specific promises and laid on us some fairly specific obligations; yet that specificity could simply go on holiday whenever God himself seemed to have gone on holiday.
"They didn't care about his specific promises," said Greenberg.
They're not looking for specific promises that can't be kept".
The proposals include some sweeping and specific promises.
On a visit to President Bush, President Megawati Sukarnoputri pledged solidarity, but made no specific promises.
First, the specific promises that employees made or conditions stated in their agreements must be examined.
Albanese says "more specific promises" will come over the course of the election campaign.
Congressional leaders expressed some support for the beleaguered Detroit automakers, without making specific promises.
Several Democratic candidates for mayor have courted New York's growing Muslim population by making specific promises.
On some issues, they made specific promises; on others, they let people project their own aspirations.
In other places, specific promises have raised expectations and then led to recriminations — or civil disobedience.
