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Our market has been overpromised and underdelivered to for so long."

It failed largely because Ford’s marketing, like most of today’s 30-second movie spots, overpromised and underdelivered.

As far as I can gather it’s a decent enough project but operationally, it’s underdelivered.

"We've underdelivered and underperformed in the league, simple, but we've been fantastic in the cups.

"They've been overpromised and underdelivered, so they're highly skeptical of advertising claims," Mr. Conlon said.

"As far as the economy is concerned this is a budget that has both underpromised and underdelivered," Mr Brown said.

'Overpromised and underdelivered' Immigrant advocates say the government should not require families to wait so long to immigrate together, claiming it discourages legal immigration.

It also remains, however, the piece that is most often underdelivered and overlooked," said Laurie Peterson, title Executive Editor, MediaPost.

The Wall Street Journal's in-depth report detailing the grossly underdelivered promises of blood test company Theranos and exposing the problem with tech's hype cycle.

The Democrats' victory--and Barack Obama's--was overdetermined and underdelivered.

That could be a team that appears entitled, one that's overpromised and underdelivered, or a team that appears to break the rules or gets special privileges.

"On every single occasion they have overpromised and underdelivered," Sony Kapoor, managing director of the think tank Re-Define, said of Europe's policymakers.

R. Stanley Williams, the director of quantum science research at HP Labs, warned that consumers will become fed up with innovations that are oversold or underdelivered.

He warned that consumers will get fed up with innovations - including the wonders expected from nanotechnology, or the science of very tiny objects - that are oversold or underdelivered.

The five robots that successfully navigated a 132-mile course in the Nevada desert last weekend demonstrated the re-emergence of artificial intelligence, a technology field that for decades has overpromised and underdelivered.

While at the helm at Wednesday, Strafford had sought investment from the group in 2010 but walked away after he found that the Club 9 Sports had overpromised and underdelivered.

The Obama administration, criticized by Hispanic organizations for having "underdelivered" on immigration and other issues of concern to Latino voters, announced on August 18, 2011 a partial change in its deportation policy.

"The public was charmed by the glitz factor, but the prospects were overpromised and the product was underdelivered," said Harold Vogel, an entertainment analyst at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.

Ricky was held responsible for the production run chaos, which was initially seen as the main reason for the loss, but he vigorously defended himself and shifted blame to Michael, stating that he "underdelivered" and "sold rubbish sales figures."

Senator John Kerry, the all-but-official Democratic nominee, said that Mr. Bush had "overpromised and underdelivered," saying that at the current rate of job growth, it would take almost a decade to replace the more than two million jobs lost under this administration.

Yesterday Cadbury executives poured scorn on Kraft's £10.5 billlion cash-and-shares offer, calling it derisory and pointing out that Kraft's management team, led by Irene Rosenfeld, the chairman and chief executive, had consistently overpromised and underdelivered.

“Harlem was oversold and underdelivered,” she said, noting that an expected influx of new residents has been slow to build, in part because of the financial crisis that afflicted the condo market in 2008 and 2009, pushing back the pace of construction, although a number of projects have recently opened.