Over the past week, newspapers here in the South have turned Pyongyang's threats into front-page spreads: its promises of "pre-emptive nuclear strikes", "all-out war" and withdrawal from the 60-year-old Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War.
As part of his effort to appease the Kurds, Mr. Assad pledged last April that he would grant citizenship to about 200,000 stateless Kurds as protests were spreading — a promise he has yet to make good on.
Nearly a week after Sister Dorothy was shot to death in the State of Pará, protests spread as officials promised justice.
Word of the inhibitors' promise spread rapidly through the AIDS community, and, like many doctors, I was eager to get the drugs to my patients as quickly as possible, by enrolling them in clinical trials.
Time will tell, but her win comes with a Marie Claire editorial spread and the promise of a capsule collection for Piperlime.com.com
As the circle of lenders and borrowers grew, financial transactions were able to muster larger sums and to spread risk, even as promises became harder to enforce.
Though this fight pits Disney and Cablevision, the battle is bigger than those two companies, and promises to spread across the country to other cable providers and stations.
The economic and political cancer of President Robert G. Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe now promises to spread to South Africa -- and so endanger the continent.
Extending a business leader's vision from shareholders to a larger group promises to spread more benefits -- social and environmental as well as financial -- to more people.
A policeman before he became a tycoon, the earthy Mr Thaksin retains his popularity among rural voters, who like his promises to spread the benefits of the country's economic growth more widely.
