Sentences with phrase «empty promises in»

(A few too many empty promises in their past, maybe?)

Ever since he started making empty promises in paying back the balance $ 250,000.00.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

Minority leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from the Bronx, said, «arrest after arrest has shattered the public's faith in good government,» and that the Legislature should act to avoid «another session of empty promises in the wake of yet another scandal,» referencing the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Not exact matches

In an email to CNN on Thursday, passenger Jonath Evans of Reidsville, North Carolina, said «The cruise director is giving passengers very limited information and tons of empty promises.

The For Lease signs in empty storefronts are outnumbered only by those promising income - tax - return loans.

In fact, it is «Empty Promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production.»

But if you need empty threats of hell or equally empty promises of heaven in order to be a decent human being, then you go on ahead.

Writing in The New York Times, Ross Douthat urges Amazon to think outside the box and select a city not on the basis of empty promises and publicity, but on the basis of what's good for the region and the country.

I'm just tired of all the empty promises of always feeling God's presence and increasing in his favor.

With the promise of wild flowers and empty trails, he prodded the men to spend the afternoon's waning hours in the countryside.

Those who fall asleep in the Lord fall into a promise, made plain by an empty tomb.

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

Mark is a bit skimpy, starting only with baptism of Jesus, ending with empty tomb and promise of future sightings in Galilee.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

But in God's self - emptying identification with a dead man, there is also the unassailable reality of an eternal love that promises victory over death.

Can theology point to anything comparably rigorous and objective as a context for testing the truth of faith's trust in the self - emptying mystery of God and the promises given to us in revelation?

«Her legacy is in hundreds of thousands of women like me... She called us all to see the empty promises of the world's definition of womanhood and to accept the contentment of womanhood as God designed it to be experienced,» said women's ministry leader and author Dannah Gresh, who began reading Passion and Purity as a single college student.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness, as we noted at the end of Chapter 3, but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

The promise that patient faithfulness in the service of that god will be rewarded by universal prosperity is empty.

There is a significant difference between being flithy rich / poor AND being taken as mugs by the corrupt board and inept manager with their empty promises, not strengthening the club season after season, 4th place finishes, woeful performances etc etc despite paying over the odds in ticket costs.

Yet again, Blackburn failed in their bid to bring a jaw - dropping signing to Lancashire, as they did with David Beckham and Ronaldinho, so it's back to every day life for the supporters who continue to be let down by the empty promises from the owners.

I promised myself that as long as I was in the picture, his kids would not see an empty fridge.

But I promise, you won't have to live in a house with empty bottom shelves and non-Feng-Shui'd higher shelves full of clutter, retrieving steak knives from a plastic tub on top of the refrigerator forever.

You may wonder why Nana Akufo - Addo who promised Ghanaians was coming to protect national purse, will spend millions of cedis and dollars of the country's revenue on these expensive cars in a country running on empty.

Presidential hopeful of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has warned Ghanaians to be wary of politicians who make empty and «fake» promises in their bid to win power.

Therefore it's no surprise that coming up with creative policies to increase housing supply is not top of Cameron's agenda; instead he prefers to deal in empty words and promises to «get Britain building».

Not only did many of them feel betrayed by the Brexit vote but many more turned their back on the brand of Conservatism offered to them last June in the election and instead opted for the empty and costly promises of Corbyn's Labour.

«If this legislation does not pass, we will know for certain that the IDC's claim of «Democratic unity» was another empty promise,» the seven said in a joint statement.

Assertions by state lawmakers to go without pay during the 16 day partial government shutdown in October appear to have been empty promises.

He's right that politics must be grounded in the complex reality of the world instead of empty promises.

Standing in front of a home emptied months ago for promised Build It Back work that has yet to begin, Councilman Eric Ulrich demanded program director Amy Peterson step down — saying «things can't get any worse.»

Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim has called on the leadership of New Patriotic Party (NPP) to call their flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo to order over what he describes as his «empty promises».

Former President John Dramani Mahama has jabbed President Akufo - Addo for making empty promises when in fact they have nothing substantial to offer to Ghanaians.

The government's plans are based on an empty promise that education will be a central part of life in a secure college.

In the billiards room just off the the hotel's foyer, state committee and party members sprawled across the hotel's pool tables with markers and posterboard, producing anti-Cuomo signs that read «No to Cuomoccio» and «No Empty Promises.

This was one of Mayor Bloomberg's empty promises - he established a Commissioner but gave them no ability to implement the needed resources for the disability community in city government.

«To talk about a plan over ten years to create 100,000 jobs, to do that over 10 years is just an empty promise and it's certainly not enough... It makes no sense in my view.»

They are part of a record of promises kept — not empty promises made in the heat of a political campaign that Rockland residents have grown weary of.

Just days after de Blasio delivered his annual State of the City address at the Apollo Theater in February, Stringer publicly derided his job creation plan as an «empty promise» and slammed the city's «out of control» homelessness.

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, has said the campaign promises by leading political parties in the country are «almost empty» and «without substance.»

«Today's news makes me feel like the Governor's just making empty promises to us, and that he's not really standing up for our dreams,» she said in the statement.

«What this says about the council is they will make disingenuous statements and empty promises with no substance in them.»

«Nobody is fooled by Cameron and Clegg's empty promises of reining in these greedy bankers.

Republican Carl Paladino called Cuomo's plan «more empty promises from a career politician who has never created a job in his life.»

A week after submission I realised that a potted plant in the background appeared to be sprouting out of my head, but it did the trick — I was offered a half share of a large and empty concrete - walled room on the ground floor of the research building, with the promise of benches and sinks.

In a promising sign, the emptied village has already attracted a feline denizen.

Leading nations have an egocentric mindset that leads them to make empty promises when vowing to contribute funds to Third World countries, as New Zealand's NewsDay opined in 2012.

May 29, 1997 News from the cancer front: glass remains half empty Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Learning how to balance meals and cook easy and tasty recipes is far more important that those empty «Lose five kilos in two weeks» promises, believe me!