"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a campaign of sweeping promises: sweeping and explicit.
- But perhaps his most sweeping promise was to "end the I.R.S. as we know it."
- That was a rather sweeping promise, after all.
- She gasped, amazed that a near stranger would make such a sweeping promise when he scarcely knew her.
- Always ready for a sound bite, he gave bombastic interviews, cheekily delivering bold statements and sweeping promises.
- It was a night in which there were a few sweeping promises.
- The most sweeping promises came from China.
- Then he turned to the economy, made sweeping promises, and provided few details.
- Mr. Bush, while offering no such sweeping promise, does propose a federal government reading program, based upon successes he has had in Texas.
- Unscrupulous recruiting agents siphon off their wages, they say, and make sweeping promises about jobs that prove false.
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