fulfilment of a promise

The church cites the bicultural education campaign as the fulfilment of a promise to the Maori people made by the 1990 General Assembly (the Treaty of Waitangi).

Willard also published a book of poetry, The Fulfilment of a Promise (1831) with her most popular poem entitled "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," which she reportedly wrote while on an ocean voyage in 1839.

In fulfilment of a promise made to the Black Monks of Bobbio during a short return visit to the monastery in 639, he wrote between 640 and 643 his principal work, the Life of St. Columbanus.

In 1887 he went to America in fulfilment of a promise to Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, and received a unanimous invitation to succeed Beecher in what was then the best-known pulpit in the United States.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch (1978), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

XVIII THE FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE IN the space of silence that followed Isobel's whispered words there came to Billy a realization of the crisis which he faced.

The only important exception was the translation of the last twelve books of the Iliad in the Spenserian stanza in completion of the work of P.S. Worsley, and this was undertaken in fulfilment of a promise made to his dying friend.