In fact they often seem to fare worse where they have more political clout, which easily translates into unreliable token promises, for, say, an increase in the number of teachers literate in Urdu, the language of Indian Islam.
Unlike many previous bail-outs, where huge headline figures depended on fickle promises from unreliable governments, this promises real money, much of it available soon.
Children who had learned that the researcher's promise was unreliable quickly succumbed to eating the marshmallow, waiting only an average of 3 minutes.
Even the unreliability is unreliable.
A general argument can be made for the wrongness of giving children false expectations, or breaking promises, or being unreliable and so forth.
Mr. Bush undoubtedly remembers the debacle of 2000, and the federal government's promise to replace unreliable voting machines, train poll workers and upgrade voter registration lists before another presidential election rolled around.
Your friend has taken to dropping you in a mess at the last moment, hindering your progress, or has become really unreliable and won't follow through on promises made to you, time and again.[1].
Promises come in thick and fast, as unreliable as all those made before – on Iraq, Libya and the "war on terror".
And all political promises to guarantee energy prices are notoriously unreliable and unlikely to spark investor confidence.
Such promises not to sue are now common, but unreliable.
