Sentence examples for won promises from inspiring English sources
It also won promises of American help with Polish military modernisation and of a battery of advanced air-defence missiles to protect Warsaw.
In Kuala Lumpur, he won promises of co-operation from Abdullah Badawi, the prime minister of Malaysia, which Mr Thaksin used to accuse of sheltering militant leaders.
The meeting, called by the British government and the Gates Foundation, a charity, won promises of $4.6 billion from donors and developing countries, to provide modern contraception (coils, pills, injectables, implants and condoms) to an extra 120m women by 2020.
Although details will not emerge before workers vote on the deal it is thought that, in return for allowing a spin-off of the Visteon car-parts division, the UAW won promises of job security and benefits for its workers.
A federal judge yesterday gave long prison sentences to two men he said lied in their testimony in a gang murder trial last year after having won promises of leniency for cooperating with prosecutors.
A10 Loans Push Turkey to Reform Turkey's leaders have won promises of $16 billion in international loans to aid an ailing economy, but now confront the tougher task of reforming a bankrupt political system.
The economic situation prevents her from making vote-winning promises, and her predecessor Kitty Ussher was embroiled in the expenses scandal and decided unexpectedly to stand down.
DETROIT — After winning promises of thousands of new jobs and bonuses for active workers at the Ford Motor Company, the United Automobile Workers union now turns to Chrysler to wrap up its epic contract talks with Detroit's major automakers.
This is one reason Japanese officials have failed to win promises from other countries, especially America, to support the yen.Happy AmericansQuite apart from the difficulty of accomplishing this in any effective way, the Americans, for once, are not up in arms about the falling yen.
Rome sold its participation to the highest territorial bidder, winning promises of Austro-Hungarian lands at war's end.
All of Obama's top Republican challengers oppose the law as an assault on economic freedoms and, should they win, promise its repeal if the high court hasn't struck it down by then.
