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词汇 example_english_broken-promise
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broken promise

collocation in English

meanings of brokenand promise


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broken
adjective
uk /ˈbrəʊ.kən/ us /ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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promise
noun
uk /ˈprɒm.ɪs/ us /ˈprɑː.mɪs/
the act of saying that you will certainly ...
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Examples of broken promise


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Is it yet another brokenpromise to add to a litany of broken promises?
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I should add that this business of the refinancing of the fourth framework programme combines a brokenpromise with a sorry display of weakness.
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There is a world of difference between a disappointed hope and a brokenpromise.
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The question that some are asking is how long it takes before an early pledge becomes a brokenpromise.
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It sounds like another brokenpromise to me.
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On the other hand, the fault for a brokenpromise may lie with some unforeseen event beyond the promiser's control.
We are looking not only at an excessive tax on the daily fare of ordinary working people but at a brokenpromise.
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I will say this, it will be the first brokenpromise which will be apparent when they get back into power—if they ever do so.
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I do not regard that as a brokenpromise.
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Nearly three years in office, and there has been no start made to the pilot scheme and a brokenpromise in the funding.
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Will he consider that as a matter of urgency rather than leaving it as just another brokenpromise?
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That is the reality of another brokenpromise.
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Come the next general election, they will remember that brokenpromise.
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It appears that we are to have yet another brokenpromise.
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That brokenpromise brings us to this position today.
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That is the first, and the worst, brokenpromise.
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I lament what is a great betrayal and a brokenpromise.
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This year's financial settlement for local government has been not only a brokenpromise but an outright con trick.
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I think it is clearly a brokenpromise and one we shall expose and oppose as strongly and as vigorously as we can.
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I say "sad" because we are witnessing yet another brokenpromise to the teaching profession.
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