Sentence examples for than it promises from inspiring English sources

This has less novelty than it promises.

It is a world that delivers just a little bit less than it promises.

The opening gag, about women being good for nothing but turning in circles, delivers more than it promises.

Now he returns with a rich, sweet slice of Americana – although a little more contrived and sentimental than it promises to be at first.

Ruby's rendition of this twin set of journeys is engrossing, well paced, and sensitive to the larger issues embedded in the story — an adventure yarn that delivers more than it promises.

Blue Fin, a full-blast production from Stephen Hanson's B. R. Guest restaurant group, the very successful operation that runs Blue Water Grill, Isabella's and Ruby Foo's, delivers much more than it promises.

Foreign business executives say that unless the agreement excludes Hong Kong subsidiaries of multinational corporations, mainland China may not provide significantly greater access to its service industries than it promised upon joining the World Trade Organization in November 2001.

It hopes to earn a greater return from its lending and financing projects than it promised to provide your deposits.

Ukraine has used less Russian gas this year than it promised to buy.

But in our day, globalisation proved to be a word that meant less than it promised.

Clemens Fuest, an Oxford don who advises the finance ministry, reckons the government will find some money for income-tax relief before the next federal election in 2013, although less than it promised at the outset.