These are the right things to promise. But what will such promises mean?

All of this has been promised but not delivered.

But few people took those promises seriously.

But these promises are not sustainable.

This session of the General Assembly is not the time for more promises.

Given China s record as a provider of aid to Pakistan, these promises will quickly be realized.

Politicians can make endless promises, but if the budget doesn t add up, politics is little more than mere words.

The promises are grand, but the actions have not measured up.

This idea of promise and progress was central to Argentines.

Some donors have now promised to do so, though only over time others are not ready to go that far, but have promised more aid than they currently give.

What is needed now is not more declarations or promises, but action action to fulfil the promises already made.

Peril or Promise in North Korea?

These promises meant a great deal to Sharon as he faced domestic political challenges. What is needed now is a parallel letter from Bush to Abu Mazen.

For 63 years, the vast majority of India s people have waited for this promise to be fulfilled.

The impression one gets is that this debate is somehow a smokescreen for more broken Palestinian promises.

The time has come to act on those promises.

NEW YORK The heart of any government is found in its budget. Politicians can make endless promises, but if the budget doesn t add up, politics is little more than mere words.

However, in the words of the Secretary General All of this has been promised but not delivered (A 59 2005, para.

But, without the political will to implement the necessary changes, such promises are destined to remain just that.

Despite the promises, aid continued to decline.

Unfortunately, we failed to deliver on that promise.

The many promises made have not been acted upon.

When it is squandered, as in Greece, promises have no value, and governments have no choice but to cut spending immediately.

Expresses its concern regarding the honouring of the pledges made in Brussels in January 2004 at the Forum of Partners for Development in Burundi and calls on all parties concerned to honour those pledges in order to give impetus to the new drive for peace and national reconciliation and reconstruction

Expresses its concern regarding the honouring of the pledges made in Brussels in January 2004 at the Forum of Partners for Development in Burundi and calls on all parties concerned to honour those pledges in order to give impetus to the new drive for peace and national reconciliation and reconstruction

People will judge the fairness of these outcomes in terms of what they were told, and what kinds of implicit promises they inferred.

Typically, these protests are local in nature and generally resolved with a combination of payoffs, arrests, and promises of future improvement.

Of course, those promises were made by politicians who in all likelihood will no longer be in office when the time comes to fulfil them.

I suspect that the indicators in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, or Chile will not be any more hopeful, and that their governments promises, too, have not been kept.

Though the G 8 had made a clear promise, there was no plan on how to fulfill it indeed, there were clear instructions that there would be no such plan.

Instead, the European Union needs a new direction.

My own country, the US, shows the largest gap between promises and reality.

So let us make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

China s leaders seem to be promising this by voicing their concern for domestic entrepreneurship, social arrangements, rural development and environmental protection.

Press censorship, repression of dissent, and the absence of organized opposition allow rulers the luxury of promising whatever they want, with no political consequences for failing to deliver. The result is government of the sloganeers, by the sloganeers, and for the sloganeers.

Such conditions facilitate recruitment, transport and transfer of women from these countries, who by false promises and deceit are trapped in the chain of trafficking and their re trafficking and forced prostitution.

G 20 communiqués have repeatedly pledged to secure adjustment and rebalancing in the world economy, but those promises have come to nothing.

The symbolism of that treaty promises much, not least the idea that civil wars and US interventions may be things of the past.

But doing so requires more than shallow promises.

Now it s time to role up our sleeves and achieve what we ve promised.

This increased transparency carries both promise and peril for the companies involved.

Only time can tell to what extent, and how fast, such promises will be fulfilled.

Mere promises by the recipient, history tells us, are not enough.

Aid to the poorest countries is stagnant, despite years of promised increases.

We must follow up our promises with regard to alternative livelihoods.