Sentences with phrase «promise held out»

Common law and legislative developments in relation to native title have not held true to the promise held out by the recognition of native title.

This is also the promise held out by alternative investments.

Eeyores reckon that the party's 2010 election performance was a disaster, given the promise held out by its poll surge following the first televised leaders» debate, and they argue that Nick Clegg's credibility since backing the coalition's line on tuition fees has been very costly.

The good news for investors is the promise held out by a growing cadre of companies working to take on that infrastructure upgrade, turning unusable water into something we can drink and making water consumption more efficient.

Seeing New York again after years of traveling, Rubinfien notes how the city «is characterized by the sense of promise it holds out to the thousands of people who come to make their way here, by its harshness, its mixed sense of brightness and disappointment, by how it places itself within us yet always remains unknowable.»

Of secondary appeal is the promise it holds out for two separate autonomous and ostensibly «equal» households, minimizing the need for contact and cooperation with the ex-wife.

Not exact matches

In the sprawling U.S. health care field, any kind of information technology that holds out the promise of improved productivity and better customer retention is likely to find interested buyers.

Big data holds lots of promise, sure, but for small businesses, realizing the benefits of this trend may still be pretty far out of reach.

If they can figure out what's going on and how to prevent the neurological side effects for cancer patients, the same approach could hold some promise in treating Alzheimer's as well.

Austin — which is home to the annual tech innovation conference, South by Southwest — also holds out the promise of growth in advertising, media, and information jobs.

And while early results have been promising, some skeptics have held out on the hype due to concerns over side effects and whether results will persist in later - stage trials.

Investors are concerned about the strong showing in the French presidential race of far - right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has promised to take France out of the euro zone and to hold a referendum on European Union membership.

They save on expensive and time - consuming travel and hold out the tantalizing promise of location independence.

A new incentive policy backed by Federal and State governments, combined with tangible initiatives such as the Jervoise Bay industrial complex, holds out the promise of more progress in future.

It doesn't offer much for startups without a product, nor does it hold out any promise of equity funding.

«Ride - hailing companies hold out the promise of creating a whole new industry, but it's tough to make judgments based on their fundamentals,» said Masahiko Ishino, an analyst at Tokai Tokyo Securities.

Forward - looking indicators like PMIs — which hit a six - year high for the region as a whole in March — held out the promise of relatively strong growth over the first quarter.

In 2009, Carney broke with central bank tradition, which typically offers only vague pronouncements of where interest rates might be headed in the future, and laid out a specific timeline, promising to hold rates at near - zero for 15 months.

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- In last week's acceptance speech, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held out this challenge: «President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.

In the context of public health care funding, the Party promises to eliminate health care premiums and ambulance charges; increase funding for home care and other out - of - hospital care services; restore funding for chiropractic and physiotherapy services; fully fund and implement a mental health strategy; and to hold a referendum to prioritize health care spending.

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has set its stall out as a central player in the fintech ecosystem, promising to aggressively adopt new technology and build a network of startups through a $ 275 million venture fund.

The sounds made by the reverberating strings held out the promise of order and hope and beauty.

Beyond this, they hold out promise of release, salvation, and a blissful hereafter.

It holds out the highest ideals and promises, and yet faces life with a downright and almost frightening realism.

Finally, 50 Shades holds out the promise of a passionate romance that overcomes numerous obstacles and (spoiler alert) culminates in marriage.

«I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for; that something even more than National Independence; that something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come.»

If you were a business owner, you'd know that even though you may have held the money out of their paychecks and sent the premiums in, it's still your employees paying for it, because it's part of the compensation package you promised them.

Thus he is able to pronounce judgment on the existing order, threatening destruction of every order which resists the pressure of a higher level of community, and holding out the promise of a glorious new age to all who are faithful to this demand.

Regarding matters of social ethics, it is the interaction between competing traditions that holds out the most promise for helping evangelicals to move beyond their current impasse.

And many other physicists now concur that the early phases of the universe have always held out much more promise for evolving into life, mind, and spirituality than earlier science had allowed.

Its narcotic effect stems from the fact that it teaches an acceptance of earthly unhappiness by holding out a promise of transcendental happiness.

But on what basis does he hold out such a promise?

The technology of virtual presence simulates «being there»; it holds out the promise of presence on demand — and thereby demands that we do some careful thinking about presence.

Yet they found in the past a national path unfolding for America in ways as yet unknown, but, as Lincoln put it, it was always «something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come.»

For Christians and for some non-Christians, the vocabulary of vocation holds out the greatest promise for naming and exploring our deepest aspirations and longings.

But I must confess that the art my heart loves best is one that praises God directly, an art that holds out the promise that beauty and truth are finally one in the God who is the ultimate source of all beauty and truth.

Largely due to the influence of Teilhard de Chardin, Catholic theologians have recently done considerable work in this area.11 Under the influence of Whitehead, process theology holds out a parallel promise within but not limited to Protestantism or even Christianity.

Seaborg holds out the promise that technology, especially that associated with nuclear power, is our best resource.

In Chapter 3 we viewed revelation as the gift of a founding promise that brings history into being and that holds out to it the hope of fulfillment.

Holloway affirms that «we are not to do evil that good might come» and that «we should not endorse a wicked political leader, even if he holds out the promise of forestalling greater evils.»

St. Paul warns us that we are not to do evil that good might come, which means we should not endorse a wicked political leader, even if he holds out the promise of forestalling greater evils.

God is patient and powerful enough to wait out our doubts and to win us back, although we should be wary of holding onto our doubts instead of the promises of God.

It's only appropriate that the creator of heaven and earth identify himself as he holds out the promise, of the hope

... the electronic church holds out promise mainly for those who are most easily convinced, not for a broader society in need of some sort of help.

Whether we call it resurrection or immortality, our faith holds out this promise.

And it learned to think of God as one who continually holds out a fresh promise for the future, as one who calls us to hope in a vision yet to be fulfilled.

The promising mystery holds out a new vision of creation's possibilities and thereby sabotages our instincts for securing our existence only in the predictability of natural recurrences.

But now since God has taken my salvation out of my hands into his, making it depend on his choice and not mine, and has promised to save me, not by my own work or exertion, but by his grace and mercy, I am assured and certain that he is faithful and will not lie to me... if we do less than we should or do it badly, he does not hold it against us.

I promised myself that I'd hold off until September before busting out the pumpkin, and since we're already a week into September... well... I whipped up a batch of pumpkin muffins this weekend, and my house smelled freaking amazing.

While Saturdays are usually packed with soccer and basketball games, errands, and dinners out, Sundays hold the promise of puttering around the house, playing hockey on the driveway, baking, or reading a good book.