There are political promises to honor and supporters to recognize.

That went the way of so many political promises.

The engineers cannot be expected to finish the design work and let construction contracts on the basis of political promises.

But after the war, there was strong public support for the returning servicemen, high expectations, and pressure to make good the political promise.

"On the other hand, they may make attractive political promises."

But as he also noted, the next stop was Congress, where cheerful political promises meet partisan realities.

Many Russians were probably more concerned about empty shops than political promises.

They all sound like political promises made by candidates.

Seldom has a political promise been kept more dramatically and in the face of greater opportunities to take an easier path.

There is growing concern that public expectations and political promises will not be met in the 1990's.