extravagant promise
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extravagant
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstræv.ə.ɡənt/us/ɪkˈstræv.ə.ɡənt/
spending too much money, or using too much ...
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promise
noun
uk/ˈprɒm.ɪs/us/ˈprɑː.mɪs/
the act of saying that you will certainly ...
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(Definition ofextravagantandpromisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He uncharacteristically places a bet on the horse, to pay for anextravagantpromisehe has made to contribute to a church reparation fund.
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After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing.
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As the rebellion began to founder, he tried to maintain his role by increasingly extravagant promises of the successes his powers would secure.
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He based himself on an ardent belief in the market mechanism and made extravagant promises on that basis.
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Each party has in turn made extravagant promises, and each in turn has failed signally to redeem its promises.
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And so they won by making wild and extravagant promises and exploiting every grievance.
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But those extravagant promises did get the votes.
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He also referred to extravagant promises that had been made.
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A properly phased programme without extravagant promises must be offered now.
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There are no extravagant promises and it has not been challenged.
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Ministers have picked up skills closely mirroring those of some agents—extravagant promises followed by a disappointing result.
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I should have thought that speculative insurance companies were making extravagant promises and could be the subject of some kind of control by the commission on advertising.
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Therefore, does he feel that his party were wise to make such extravagant promises when they knew that they had no power to prevent such rises?
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While we have governments which make extravagant promises in their manifestos which cannot be fulfilled, we shall not be able to correct or deal with the problems which arise.
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She is constantly running off with men, and always making extravagant promises to her children.
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These high expectations, as in other newly independent ex-colonies, stemmed partly from the extravagant promises made by some political leaders.
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