Sentences with phrase «on empty promises»

Professionals do not rely on empty promises from their clients.

This article warns against spending money on empty promises — such as unscrupulous solicitors who promise top - ranking on Google, or to bringing thousands of «quality» visitors to the client's website.

To help you make sure you don't waste your money on empty promises, here's what you should consider before getting a credit card with an annual fee.

The Xoom's problem is it was released based on empty promises.

It breaks my heart hearing how these exhausted parents have spent their hard earned cash on empty promises.

This «rebuild» is giving false hope for the fans to ease off all the pressure they have been giving them until the end of season, maybe get a few season tickets sold on empty promises as per every season.

I won't waste my money on those empty promises again.

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

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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.

Don't make empty promises — always follow through and deliver on what you say.

The WikiLeaks collection contains a mix of copious data and empty files marked «secret» that promised more details to come on attacks against more than 15 security software firms.

If you are looking for the «real deal», not empty promises, this book should be on your shelf!

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.

They are also on the FTC Operations Empty Promises list of companies being investigated for illegal activities.

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.

or it could be the church is a powerful drain on culture and basic rational sense, many buy into its empty promises

Th popular culture today is a powerful drain on the church and basic good sense, many buy into its empty promises.

On what grounds can we claim to accept God's promise of eternal life and then reject the Scripture's claim that the sign of God's promise is the empty tomb?

The main reason that I believe that this collection of historically contingent documents is the inerrant revelation of God is because I believe Jesus rose from the dead and I have experienced the power of that event: therefore the prophecies weren't empty promises, the conquest of Israel wasn't just a powerplay under the masquerade of a divine mission, and the apostles really were guided by the Holy Spirit to expound further on all matters leading to salvation.

How fitting that the man who dedicated so much of his life to opposing the lie at the heart of communism's empty promises should be celebrated and remembered on communism's very own «feast day.»

We can now begin to see how our twin themes of revelation as promise on the one hand and the image of God's self - emptying on the other converge.

Empty promises and a team that is going backwards on the pitch.

@kickassfan i do get it we are (the fans) the ones who are abused, season ticket prisez?transfers (empty promises), why the board do nt put pressure on wenger by giving him season targets?

and we can count on nothing but lost promises and empty pockets!

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.

Only to arrive and find an empty room and one shell - shocked civil servant promising me we'd get on with things shortly — but first he had to get us some desks.»

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.

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.

The GOP's proposal for a Constitutional amendment is nothing more than another empty promise to avoid keeping their word on independent redistricting.»

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».

He stands with the Blacks one day, he makes promises, he stands with Islam Mosques one day, He makes promises, he stands with the Hispanics one day, he makes promises, but, he doesn't tackle the pros and cons on his support, he just makes statements and empty promises for their endorsements and money.

Instead, we heard yet another empty promise on the M4 relief road but still no detail on when work might start.

TWU 100 President John Samuelsen said the focus of the lobby day must be on «ending the scourge of assaults,» and on ensuring that the «empty promises of the M.T.A.» to install partitions and alarms would be filled.

«Instead of empty rhetoric we need straight talking on immigration, we need action not empty promises.»

«The Upstate Jobs Party will breathe new life into the American Dream for so many New Yorkers who have been betrayed by the empty promises of politicians on both sides of the aisle who say they will create jobs, but never do,» Babinec said today.

«Neither raw emotion, nor empty slogans and false promises are the solution,» he said, adding that «while my heart beckons me forward, my head tells me that my continued presence on the Conservative» line would only hand the election to Cuomo.

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.

For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

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.

With African American race car driver Bill Lester's historic win at the Grand - Am Road Racing, the light has now been shined on other Black racers who have How those in power in the Black church make empty promises and manipulate unmarried African American women to stay single in the name of God.

After all the children and their teachers have left for the day, thousands of cleaners around the state get to work in vacant classrooms emptying bins Last week I shared my six pet peeves about middle - aged men's online dating profiles, and I promised everyone that this week I'd focus on middle

However, The Candidate isn't just a commentary on the seduction of the participants in the race for office, but also on the society that elects the empty suits and phony promises.

But I'll also be arguing that a «tech - proof» school doesn't hop on every bandwagon with flashy lights and too - often empty promises.

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.

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environment.

This is not an empty promise, both independent evaluation and our annual feedback from headteachers evidence the impact of partnership on our partner schools.

We should focus on these proven strategies rather than voucher schemes that offer parents empty promises while asking them to give up federally protected civil rights.»

Smith was just the latest in a string of carpetbaggers to descend on Oakland with big, empty promises.

Don't be fooled by the empty promises of the various vanity presses that lurk out there on the Internet.

In each storefront, promises were being made - the butcher's window with a freshly killed lamb hanging on a hook, the greengrocer's with a basket of a deep red beets and a tub of onions, the barber's empty chair and glinting scissors, the healer's pharmacy full of brown glass bottles with hand - written labels, the jeweler's gold chains strung around a black velvet neck.