Sentence examples for we got promises from inspiring English sources

"We got promises, we got intentions but we didn't get definitive results that we could bring back to our physicians," said Dr. Marie Kuffner, president of the California Medical Association.

"We got promises from the United States, during President Bush's reign, saying that if we sign the [CPA] peace treaty [with south Sudan], the sanctions would be lifted and Sudan's name would be removed from the list of the countries that sponsor terrorism.

"For one year, we get promises and nothing more," one man shouted in Arabic.

We got a promise: today it is going.

But he adds: "Obviously you never get everything you want or what you ask for delivered, but having said that I think on debt relief we got £100bn of promises, and on aid you can debate whether we got 70% or 80% of what was promised, but it is still a lot: 200m HIV/Aids treatments; there are 3 million people with malaria bed nets – in 2003 it was couple of hundred thousand.

"We got the same promises from the Obama government saying if we allowed the referendum [in January this year on southern independence] and accepted the result, sanctions would be lifted".

"When we ask about this, we get more promises," says a rebel who deals with the Americans.

Is it a coincidence that we get these promises of extended support each time things start to become volatile?

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But after we got married you promised that you'd stop spending so much time with the herd.

"We got a lot of promises, but we never got any money.