Example sentences for: promised

How can you use “promised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In India, Sunanda Datta-Ray, a former editor of the Statesman of Calcutta and now an editorial consultant with the Straits Times of Singapore, wrote in the Asian Age that Indians fear the Clinton scandal will "set back their own promised freedom of information bill."

  • For years, federal agencies have struggled with delivering promised system capabilities on time and within budget.

  • But his pronouncement this week that the deal now being worked over in Congress is "dead" probably signals the final collapse of tobacco industry support for a settlement that once promised to serve the interests of both anti-tobacco forces and the industry.

  • After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a "breach of trust," and promised to be more "up front" in future maneuvers.

  • In an editorial headlined "Trimble's still in trouble," it doubted if the IRA would surrender its weapons before next May as promised (if the IRA doesn't, Trimble has said that he will resign as first minister and thus destroy the power-sharing executive).


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