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1273 examples of Promising in a sentence

As a young writer who left behind a promising military career, Fyodor had been attracted to ideas of socialism and reform, and joined a circle of intellectuals to discuss radical texts banned by the Imperial government.
In many ways, the novel follows a common narrative thread where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life.
We’re only beginning to uncover the mechanisms behind the experience of pain, but there are some promising areas of research.
By starting with a small sample, they can evaluate whether the results are promising enough to run a more comprehensive, expensive study.
The most promising solution of all may be to look lower on the food chain.
But the problem with Santa Clause is, if you look at the mandatory spending of what these folks have been doing and promising folks, it turned out that in 1967, 38 percent was mandatory spending on what we call "entitlements."
These range from promising MACI techniques, which harvest cells from small pieces of cartilage to grow replacement tissue.
NB: Restricting technological development doesn't seem promising, if we are talking about a general halt to technological progress.
Death had brought this flask for his Godson, promising to make him a successful doctor.
We will synthesize and test the top predictions and advance the most promising candidates into the clinic.
In fact, a number of labs in several different countries have begun small-scale clinical trials of these memory-destroying treatments for PTSD and have found really promising results.
They've tested this in survivors of road traffic accidents and mothers who've had emergency Caesarean sections, both types of trauma that frequently lead to PTSD, and they found really promising reductions in symptoms in both of those clinical cases.
While this may sound formidable, the slow mutation rate is actually a promising sign when it comes to disarming them.
I think the most promising way is to go for biomarkers.
Now, of course, this was a simple ploy on Dr. P's part to get me to do the exercises I didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising experience for me.
And I'm telling a story that many of you know, because Steve's columns became the basis for a book, which was turned into a movie, with Robert Downey Jr. acting as Steve Lopez, and Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, the Juilliard-trained double bassist whose promising career was cut short by a tragic affliction with paranoid schizophrenia.
They separate the parents from the children by promising to provide food, clothing, shelter to these children.
And I'm happy to say that there are several very promising developments in this area, looking at the impact of shipping on whales.
I'll discuss two very promising approaches.
So it's very promising, actually.
The summary was promising but watching the movie was a huge disappointment.
The beginning of the film is promising.
The premise is interesting and sounded promising.
The Power started off looking promising but soon became boring and tedious to watch.
I remember seeing this years ago, It had a reasonably promising start, with an interesting premise, but then it degenerated into nonsense quite quickly.
The premise of the film was very promising - sort of a gay Napoleon Dynamite type of film.
An example of a quick promising start then a sudden fall.
Would be promising if it were a student film.
It's far too long and ends just when it reaches a promising scenario, although the conclusion is nonsensical.
This was a sad waste of two such promising actors.
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