Sentences with phrase «with empty promises»

In a city like Los Angeles, anyone can throw a rock and hit a slick salesperson with empty promises.

However, Peter Molyneux happens to be one of the worst gaming devs out there haha, with his empty promises and jumped up over-hyping of his games!

It usually is an expensive illegal option filled with empty promises.

We will not waste your time with empty promises!

I would tell anyone don't waste your time at these other dealerships that lie to get u in the door with empty promises.

The lawsuit alleged that Match.com fooled them into subscribing with empty promises and the display of old fake profiles.

«Older women often get ripped off with empty promises from matchmakers that they have plenty of men for them,» she said.

The neocons and the neolibs have let down both the liberals and conservatives with empty promises of leaving Afghanistan and bringing our troops home.

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.

@Phil: with the greatest respect i do recall members of arsenal fan tv attending a meet with Ivan G and it was at that time he tried to offset the uproar around the decline of the club and the fact the fans concerns were (are) not only being overlooked but we've been expected to accept being appeased with empty promises and treated like sh **

His fictional National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), a technocratic nightmare under the banner of progressive Scientism, slowly takes over common man, manipulating his insecurities with the empty promises of progress and technology, never asking where that progress will lead or what that technology should do.

Let's not brush of the hurts of others with an empty promise to pray that we'll likely forget.

Not exact matches

Don't fall for empty promises and work only with dealers that sell LMBA - approved investment - grade precious metals.

Unfortunately, the company's prospects turned out to be little more than empty promises and the shares crashed back down to earth, taking down France's stock market and public finances with it.

Don't try to bribe me with easy promises of eternal paradise, or empty threats of eternal torture for not believing.

Most Eye - Opening: Ethan Bronner at The New York Times with «Right to Lawyer Can Be Empty Promise for Poor»

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

Unless this process of proxy baptism is made transparent with adequate checks and balances, I as a non-Mormon do not feel their assurances are again worth more than empty promises.

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

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.

Rumors, that's all it is with Arsenal nowadays, empty promises and rumors... Arsene Wenger may have vanquished the old Arsenal label of «boring, boring Arsenal», but it now seems that he wants to take us back there before he quits!!!

but Arse Wenger stopped him with some sad touching stories and empty promises for yet another time around!!

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.

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.»

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».

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.

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.

«As long as we allow dangerous and deranged people to buy guns, the promise of a more perfect union will remain empty for the thousands of Americans who are murdered with guns every year,» he told the applauding crowd.

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

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.

So why not do away with that charade at the outset, and instead of making empty promises of anonymity, tell volunteers from the get - go that anyone could know who they were?

With 10 % of all profits going towards supporting charitable projects in Palestine, it's promise of «conscious swagger for the conscious mind», is not an empty one, making you feel you get a lot more for your money.

I was in Doha, the capital of Qatar, with bits of four days to spare and an empty hotel room with the promise of a constant supply of clean sheets.

Hopefully this isn't an empty promise as I have run into those in the past with other online dating sites and been left waiting endlessly for my supposed refund.

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.

He cavorts with the Barbies and the Kens, but this is a lonely, empty pastime — they're just toys, after all — and it seems to promise a boring movie.

Oliver presents an understandable shot at redemption for him, which Vincent unwilling embraces as his interaction with the boy draws him out of his empty world, into a life promising something more than what he has settled for.

The real horror of Fargo is that many of the characters have thoughtlessly bought into the «sunny» veneer of American culture and the empty promise of «the American Dream», but at the same time they seem unable to reconcile those impossible visions of optimism with the persistent troubles that plague their lives — often caused by their own lack of self - awareness.

Long synonymous with endless delays and empty promises, this butt of countless internet jokes is finally, undeniably here.

They feel they've been steamrolled by winners that made empty promises and played fast - and - loose with the facts.

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.

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.

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

But then you find yourself with an empty track ahead of you, a rapidly gaining Renault Sport Clio behind, and all the promises you made in the pitlane completely disappear.

The light of the stars is o damn stark / When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space... Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake / No promises to keep and none to make.

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.

Empty Promises Although results are not guaranteed, and will never in fact be realized (I have yet to meet an author who has turned a profit from a book published with a vanity press), vanity presses imply:

To me, paying ten or fifteen bucks for a few guidebooks beats paying a vanity outfit $ 25,000 for a «premium package» which comes complete with your own personal spambots to «market» your book to unwilling victims... and an empty promise that you'll be «considered» by one of the Big Five.

You can fill in the rest of that ad with the name of just about any car and just about any dealership in the U.S. and the promise will be as empty as your bank account because it promises negative equity.