But the money problem seemed more promising, at least for a while.

But things look more promising than they have in a long time.

Police officials and others say the results so far are promising.

But others seem to be off to a promising start.

The short run for the company also does not look promising.

Although these studies are promising, more research needs to be done.

Although more studies are needed, the evidence so far is promising.

He was promising water both to them and to himself.

The day had seemed to be getting off to a promising start.

We have several other kids who are very promising as well.

When I last saw her, she was not very promising.

I have worked with someone who is very good at the promising part.

A couple were promising, but let me down in the end, the rest.

We've set up a small team to go through them and so far the results look promising.

Two of his teachers, both young and promising, are dead.

If the research is so promising, then let private industry lead the way.

That was more promising than many other things we hear from his government.

That does not seem a very promising road to go down.

In this way we will provide them with a promising future.

Bit early to say of course but it looks very promising.

The series got off to a less than promising start.

It may not look promising, but how can we tell?

Which, while better than it could have been, did not seem promising.

However, despite promising early test results, life was not found.

The season will get off to a promising start with six programs this week.

And I can promise them now, help is on the way.

But he may also have to promise him some more help.

They may promise to market the book but do not.

I told them we'd try but could not promise anything.

I promise not to move from here or say a word.

What was the right sort, and why should he promise more?

But you have to promise me not to try to run away.

And you will promise to talk to me all the time?

Then she asked me to promise again to find her.

I promise to use all my power to bring you out.

And I promise to take very little of your time.

The women promise to bring their children together to play.

You promise to get back to her later in the day.

We must think of something to tell everyone, to promise them.

A second summer season did not seem to promise well here.

And I made him promise he would stay away from me.

But from now on things will be different, I promise.

She makes him promise they will be together again some day.

I promise to love God and help take care of the world.

I'll give something if they promise not to come back.

I can promise you we do try and read every single one!

They promise to be good friends to each other always.

You must promise not to go to see her again.

I promise no one will know but the two of us.

But I can promise we'll stay out of the way.

The play had all the promise of a sure thing.

They held a promise of a better life to come.

They are both 22 and have a great deal of promise.

But these days, life does not seem so full of promise.

But a promise to do better in the future is not enough.

The promise of American life is still a real one.

A good start, with the promise of still better things to come.

But the promise of something better was not yet dead in 1866.

We were given a promise just under two years ago.

Now he was going to make good on his promise.

Keep God in your life and do not change for any promise.

Now he had made good his promise to find her again.

She wanted very much to be good and to keep her promise.

I'm talking about the promise I made on the way here.

He had made a promise to a man who was now dead.

In those days the future had seemed full of promise.

What about God's promise to us of a better world?

Yet I will keep a promise, not to her but to myself.

I think you could actually hold him to his promise.

He had to plan some way in which to keep his promise.

Nothing more was said, but a promise had been made.

At the same time, my promise is of course given.

Almost enough, and we had the promise of the rest.

The promise itself would not have got him very far, though.

I'm not going to ask for a promise from you.

A helpful strategy, then, is to promise oneself to refrain from spending any part of a refund (or other kind of found money) for a brief but significant period - two months, say.

Again, he renounced his position as head of the church.

She could not renounce her family, no matter what they had done.

Not more than an hour ago I had renounced all those things.

We have to renounce the politics of force, they bring nothing good.

But like the others, he can't bring himself to renounce his trade.

This led him to renounce his family and social position.

Perhaps they too will then be powerful enough to renounce power.

They had to renounce the stars in order to have a home.

I wrote to your solicitor last year, renouncing the money.

We must see to it that military force is renounced.

And take this with you, man whom I here renounce!

She might have renounced music as a career, but never to hear it again?

Must you now renounce one to keep faith with the other?

At the same time, the groups in the country were called upon to renounce violence.

China has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control.

Not that I am ready to renounce this world, or its things.

Some workers that renounced the union were allowed to return to work.

You could renounce your rights, but must do this before starting the job.

According to the report workers may not renounce their right to annual leave.

For the last time, will you take the five million and renounce your claim?

Art is itself too near the reality which must be renounced for a season.

Getting married and having a daughter has led him to renounce any interest in violence, he said.

After three years there, she renounced the faith and left.

From the first they had renounced the use of dogs.

Not for the first time he swore to give up dice altogether.

Charity immediately swore to give up her power, seeing where it had so nearly led her.

This makes Takaya lose his confidence and initially swear to give up racing.

Thirty-six prisoners were reported to have repented and sworn to give up future criminal activity.

He said Muslim clerics, encouraged by the government, were preaching against piracy - 200 former pirates had sworn to give up.

The first threat of fair skies in spring may have women estimating bikini damage and men swearing to give up the golf cart.

What she'd done instead was swear to give up her life or sanity for me, if only I saw to her vengeance after she no longer could.

Commanded by the Optio, Prolix leaves the camp, swears to give up soothsaying, and is driven away by a thunderstorm.

LISSA: I, the undersigned, do hereby swear to give up lying to others and/or myself for the remaining - what is it?

Chris Warner (Michael Galvin)was stunned when Kirsty exposed Katherine as a fraud and murderer, and swore to give up on women forever.

Then, when Tom King was fully recovered, Haynes had made him swear to give up fist-fighting and abjure strong liquor, and had secured him a post as barman in the Fighting Chance.