All this points to an association with Henslowe of some duration, as no mere tyro would be thus paid in advance upon mere promise.

If mere promises to pay were considered cash equivalents, then there would be little difference between the cash and accrual methods for tax purposes.

And a mere promise to provide a benefit, she warns, "is not something that the student can enforce in court."

Such assurance, a third official said, should involve practical steps to constrain the nuclear-weapons program and should not be mere promises.

No doubt some of it was truth, though he could not imagine a mere promise binding the vainglorious metallics for long.

The tone was more than a mere promise to settle a personal score.

It's generally accepted that we have entered an era where the "mere promise" of a piece of advertising is no longer enough.

He further criticised the additional jobs offered as mere "promises."

We cannot, though, be satisfied with mere promises.

But the mere promise of it has already proved an enticement, particularly for those in states like Massachusetts, where restrictions are being debated.