break a promise

I was brought up to believe that you should never break a promise.

You did not break a promise to a dying man.

Or the project will test their understanding of why it is particularly bad to break a promise.

"You should never break a promise to a child," she said.

There he was warned never to break a promise, no matter how small.

When it did, he said the magazine had broken a promise.

Columbia's decision forced me to break a promise to my students or give up the class.

"I think I'd like a chance to break a promise to him.

A man in such an exposed position could not afford to break a promise.

They are also incapable of breaking a promise, once made.

Stop acting as if we're breaking a promise that we made you.

Should a journalist break a promise of confidentiality after, let alone before, the story is over?

His divinity never broke a promise, if she could help it.

Carlo promised her he would never break a promise to God.

Okay, I don't think you would break a promise made that way.

The judge's findings: Bush's administration broke a promise to improve health care for kids.

"To build only the ballpark would be breaking a promise to our young people."

"The fights came when I thought she broke a promise.

"Breaking a promise is a problem of a higher order than changing a policy position.

That was enough to make anybody break a promise.

She has, sadly, broken the third rule - never break a promise.

The basis of the action was deceit in breaking a promise.

It was also difficult when the producer for a television news program broke a promise to show her only from the waist up.

After all, if a man could break a promise made in a church, then why not one made merely on paper?

He is nice to those he cares about and will never ever break a promise.