No promises.

But make no promises, remember that.

The Millennium Development Goals contain specific promises of solidarity.

It received promises of cooperation from all these commissions.

Get the dough and come back. No mistakes.

I might. But I've heard that you've made other promises since.

Please do not promise us any more fortunes at the end of the rainbow.

This promises to improve opportunities for Bosnia and Herzegovina producers to export their agricultural products.

In the Millennium Declaration we promised food, water, health and education to the greatest possible number of citizens.

That integrated approach is far more promising than insistence on official development assistance supply targets.

We can make empty promises or excuses as to why no action is being taken in many critical areas.

The developed countries will make new promises of official development assistance and will perhaps fulfil some of those promises, but they will keep collecting hundreds of times the amount of the promised assistance as service on external debt.

In most cases recipients of foreign aid are promised funds for programmes and often receive either far less than what was promised or nothing at all.

Cease fires are entered into in the full knowledge that they are not going to be fulfilled, and other pledges broken within hours of being made.

In the recent election campaign, the PDP, unable to point to concrete achievements, simply made new promises. But they rang hollow to ordinary Nigerians.

There have also been worrying cases where the Transitional Government has made promises that led to voluntary disarmament, promises it has not yet fulfilled, thus increasing the risk that individuals will rejoin illegal armed groups.

The mission was however concerned to learn that promises had been made by the Transitional Government to members of the former military, in respect of indemnity payments, pensions and State employment, which were not linked to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, particularly the need to disarm.

60. While by May 1993 the Commission had been able to receive general oral promises of cooperation in both cases from the local administration, 14 obtaining a military engineering unit (40 50 people) proved to be a time consuming problem.

It is legitimate to look forward to the fulfilment of the promises made in solemn declarations it is legitimate to expect that intentions so boldly and courageously stated will become promises, and it is also legitimate, when the urgency of the matter no longer leaves time for either declarations of intention or promises, to take action.

They also totally get the idea that in some instances they can make more credible promises to long term investors the kind of investors who will come build the port, build the roads, in a new city they can make more credible promises if they do it along with a partner nation.