Although it promises work that addresses "perplexing questions," nearly everything here is perfectly pleasant and innocuous.

A father of one and with a pregnant wife, Alejandro had been promised work by a friend.

B1 A summer jobs program for students in New York City has placed only several hundred of the 3,500 who were promised work.

A man comes here, we don't promise him certain work.

Those who defected to the Germans were promised a "warm reception", food and work.

An American company recruits workers in a small Mexican town, promising them good work at high pay.

Anton had been promised work at the piano factory.

And once that's done, he's promised us steady work helping him to keep things running day to day.

"I will do my best for the year ahead, ser, but I can promise only diligence and hard work."

They said she promised them respectable work keeping customers company and pouring them drinks.