Collocations withpromise
These are words often used in combination withpromise.
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breach of promise
The central concept is breach of promise in marriage or marriage situations - and all the subsidary information leads into that.
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broken promise
On the other hand, the fault for a broken promise may lie with some unforeseen event beyond the promiser's control.
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campaign promise
He made a campaign promise to work to abolish the office for which he was running.
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conditional promise
Some of the more naive thought that it made an absolute promise, but it turned out to be a very conditional promise.
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considerable promise
But, on the basis of the analysis presented here, it holds out considerable promise.
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empty promise
At the end of the day, such a court judgment basically will remain on paper as an empty promise.
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explicit promise
In other words, we have a hole in the scale, but we also have the speaker's explicit promise that he plans to fix it.
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extravagant promise
After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing.
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false promise
Because so few people are likely to have a transplant, relatively few are given the false promise of being placed on a transplant waiting list.
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greatest promise
Within-subject designs using biological interventions hold the greatest promise for scientific progress on consciousness, but objective knowledge of another person's experience appears impossible.
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hollow promise
It was a hollow promise, especially for those who bore the harshest consequences of the poll tax burden.
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implicit promise
In addition, workers are now leery about accepting the implicit promise of lifetime employment that many larger firms formerly offered.
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promise of freedom
If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motives, ever a promise of freedom.
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solemn promise
That has caused a great deal of anger in my constituency, because people feel that the solemn promise that was given has been broken.
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vague promise
It does nothing concerning working people in the industries, although we have a vague promise about that.
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