promise someone the earth/moon

Examples of promised

promised

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

While this promised much, it came as no surprise that researchers in developing countries wanted exactly the same as everyone else.
Its focus on land and its elimination of the human factor promised a rational basis of administration and an ' objective ' basis for taxation.
The state may not, when required, provide the guarantee/payment initially promised.
The cooption of those with social influence promised cheap and effective government.
Carter himself had promised in his 1976 campaign to promote deregulation in the name of equity and efficiency and made the airlines his first target.
In particular, it is not quite the optimised program that we promised in the introduction.
Due to the long-term nature of promised pension benefits, pension funds are able to follow a long-horizon investment policy.
We are promised spiritual eternity, so why not a fatalism?
Consequently, the number of words tagged fell far short of the 1000 initially promised.
Surplus for each regime when promised utilities are truncated at autarky.
Others are kept near the initial level (although not, of course, exactly at the initial level) of promised utility.
She agreed to find a physician to interpret his medical reports and promised to contact him again.
In some cases they had promised the older person that they would never have to move into a nursing home.
Every student1 promised to come but the idiots1 missed the train.
Or we might say that by entering the military service, the private has tacitly or explicitly promised to obey orders from his superiors.
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