Promise
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The response from America’s Democratic Party, which has traditionally represented this constituency, was to
promise
affordable universal health care and more education spending, while also protecting government jobs and entitlement programs.
The third development involves the emergence (and promise) of new technologies that make the prospect of intercepting ballistic missiles at one or another stage of their flight – hitting a bullet with a bullet – more real than ever before.
This election was not a landslide; it was a little sand blown into the great engine of American democracy by the
promise
to make Russia – sorry, America – “great again.”
Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, also campaigned on a
promise
to withdraw from the region.
Today, Rwanda is a peaceful country full of
promise
and hope, with one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
His voters expect him to deliver on that promise, and he knows it.
More often, they influence regulation by dangling before the regulator the
promise
of lucrative future employment.
This embrace of leaders who
promise
that they alone can fix society’s problems and restore some idealized past reflects widespread ignorance of the nature and consequences of populist rule.
But realizing this
promise
requires European leaders to provide a vision and act decisively now.
Part of the
promise
of the new push to European integration in the 1980’s was that it would make borrowing easier.
Keeping that
promise
is long past due.
Trump’s
promise
to cut taxes again is widely viewed as a major reason why Republican congressional leaders – and, most important, the party’s big donors – supported him in 2016 and continued to do so.
The trust funds’ real
promise
will consist in educating citizens about investments.
Now both US household and government spending is likely to be curbed, as both parties’ presidential candidates
promise
a return to fiscal responsibility.
However, in order to fulfill that promise, the industrialized world must give Africa a chance through the emerging international carbon market.
Economies hooked on this model find themselves excessively specialized in primary products that
promise
little productivity growth.
But making a
promise
legally binding is only the first step towards fulfilling it, and in this respect there is still much work to be done.
Despite Barack Obama’s
promise
in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut down “Gitmo,” the US evidently has no intention of doing so anytime soon.
Indeed, they are cleared to leave, and it is only Obama’s failure to keep his
promise
– and the US Congress’s failure to legislate their transfer – that is keeping them there.
As life has gotten easier, with people’s material expectations largely met, voters have increasingly favored neo-autocrats who
promise
to “protect” the people from this or that threat.
This is partly because that order has not lived up to its
promise
of shared prosperity – a failure that must be addressed.
Around the world, new job opportunities are being created that offer the
promise
of prosperity.
Pakistan must increase its efforts on polio eradication for reasons that go beyond fulfilling a global health
promise
(which is reason enough in its own right).
Rather, drugs can be used to make the exposure treatment more effective (the pharmaceutical d-cycloserine has shown some
promise
in this regard).
By calling what’s being taken from the young “taxes,” rather than “borrowing” – that is, a
promise
to repay far more than what’s being taken – the implicit debts have been intentionally kept off the books.
With a democratic transition and an economy primed for growth on the basis of inward investments into Mexico and an export boom to the US, President Fox assumes power at a time of great
promise.
Fox lived up to this
promise
with his choice of cabinet ministers.
But, despite its
promise
of universal suffrage, the Basic Law restricts democratic development during the first ten years after the handover of Hong Kong to China.
Instead of distributing oil revenues through a program of low-cost loans, as promised, the government has been forced to ration gasoline, as economic
promise
has given way to crisis.
Tensions have also been on the rise since Ahmedinejad fulfilled his campaign
promise
to enforce Islamic strictures on social life.
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