Sentence examples for was being promised from inspiring English sources

Something was being promised that wasn't being delivered.

No spring was being promised, but I still didn't think of the title as despairing.

At the same time, the new round of stress tests on banks was being promised as more rigorous than its predecessors.

And all this was being promised during the Depression's worst years, on the eve of the century's most traumatic global war.

Party leader Dick Cole said a national quota was "absurd", especially when greater devolution was being promised for English regions.

"The South African constitution is one of the highly respected and acknowledged constitutions and it says we are all equal; we're therefore reminding our government to say that this was being promised and we voted for you so we need protection," she told the BBC's Network Africa programme.

Yes, what is being promised?

But it isn't really nostalgia that is being promised.

The former FDLR soldiers are being promised new lives in Rwanda.

Big tax cuts are on the table, and even bigger tax cuts are being promised.

But will all the free time we're being promised actually make our lives any better?