Sentences with phrase «common promise made to»

«I'll send you a postcard» was a common promise made to friends and family before embarking on a journey.

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In keeping with that sentiment, the founders hold the following guidelines in common: Don't make promises you can't keep or claims you can't stick to.

Given his financial experience, Mr. Paulson had to know how deceptive his promise was in placing such emphasis on the government's stock options, the sweetener that has made so many executives fabulously wealthy: «taxpayers will not only own shares that should be paid back with a reasonable return, but also will receive warrants for common shares in participating institutions,» he explained.

He makes a compelling case for rethinking human rights on the ground that it has become «a powerful ideology that promises to relieve us of the burdens of political responsibility for the common good.»

In this connection it should not be forgotten that there is an «invisible college» made up of persons from around the globe who share a common vision of the transition through which we are moving and who are seeking to find the values that will carry us through to realize as much of the promise of the future as possible.

What I am trying to say is that we have to get to the place where we realize that we just canâ $ ™ t expect people to remain committed to each other because it is expected, or promises were made, or there is uniformity in whatever area, or that there is a common goal weâ $ ™ ve set for them.

What I am trying to say is that we have to get to the place where we realize that we just can't expect people to remain committed to each other because it is expected, or promises were made, or there is uniformity in whatever area, or that there is a common goal we've set for them.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

«He isn't promising his campaign contributors that he is going to raise the minimum wage, ban fracking, make health care a right, fully fund our public schools or opt out of Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

The mayor's lawsuit contends that, prior to the Syracuse Common Council vote to sell 28 acres of public land to COR, company officials made «false statements» promising not to seek tax breaks on the harbor development.

A 1,400 - acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising

Back in 2009 and 2010, when the Common Core was adopted by a host of states ready to promise pretty much anything in exchange for Race to the Top funds, it was fueled by twin promises: It would «raise standards» and it would make it easier to compare how schools and states were faring in reading and math.

The growing number of states that are choosing to give their own exams, coupled with the different definitions of «proficient» on PARCC tests, is unraveling one of the central promises of the Common Core academic standards — the idea that states would have the same math and reading standards and use the same tests, making it possible to directly compare student performance across state lines.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Next month, Aungst promises to make the connection between transfer and Common Core State Standards explicit.

Week article, «Common Core's Promise Collides with IEP Realities,» claims, «Special Education teachers struggle to make sure individual education programs align with standards.»

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

By taking a promising idea and making a hash of things, advocates of the Common Core paid homage to a long tradition in American education.

A motorcycle making its world debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show is not a very common occurrence, but when it happens, it promises to be very special, just like the Ducati 899 Panigale.

Such systems usually have a few characteristics in common: They promise to make you rich, they involve lots of complicated graphs and scientific - sounding indicators, and they tend to involve frequent trading.

We can not promise any benefits to your horse or other animals from your taking part in this clinical trial; however, possible benefits include lowering the incidence of this common eye cancer in Haflinger, Belgian, Percheron, Appaloosa, and Arabian Horses, helping breeders to make informed mating decisions, and better prediction of the risk of developing disease for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

For the Court of Appeal, the «fundamental point» is that the police made a promise of confidentiality and anonymity to Ms. Stack in exchange for information: «That promise gave rise to a common law and equitable right entitling Ms. Stack to have her identity kept confidential.

«The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has launched an «online patent commons reference library» at patentcommons.org with searchable databases containing «promises, pledges, covenants and other legal undertakings made by contributors» to benefit open - source software and standards,» writes Bill Heinze.

In the crowded world of injury law, it is common for advertisers to make big, loud promises but not deliver on service.

Although no one can legally promise you that you will receive disability benefits, it is always more helpful to have an experienced person guide you through the process, provide advice, help you obtain paperwork and prevent you from making common mistakes that could cost you your Social Security disability benefits.

The purpose of the meeting was to reflect on the progress made by these groups over the past year, discuss the access to justice initiatives underway in different jurisdictions, highlight promising developments, learn from common challenges, and consider collaborations and cooperation among justice stakeholders that could be further supported by the Action Committee.

The claimants submitted, inter alia, that the orders: (i) had been made without any prior consultation as to the principle, relying upon the common law duty to act fairly and / or the doctrine of procedural legitimate expectation; and (ii) were irrational on the basis that the reasons which had been put forward by the defendants in justification of the decision were inconsistent and contradictoryDyson LJ: The fact that, when conferring on the lord chancellor the power to prescribe court fees, parliament had decided whom he should consult before doing so, militated strongly against the idea that there should co-exist a common law duty to consult more widely (in the absence of a clear promise by the lord chancellor that there would be wider consultation and in the absence of any clear established practice of wider consultation).

One of the most common promises people make to be elected to the condo board is to keep maintenance fees low, or to lower fees, he says.