Look, when we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise.

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We shall remember always where we are headed, too, which is to make the Promised Land a land of promise, a land of freedom, justice and equality.

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Flemish style is stealth style, Flanders the land of under-promise and over-delivery.

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But for others, your story starts with ancestors who, at some point, left behind everything they knew to seek the promise of a new land.

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But the city would promise the necessary rezoning of the land for new construction only to the Jets, so the deal was still stacked in their favor.

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Let Hamas explain to their own people how such a policy is going help them regain possession of the holy land when no negotiations exist that the promise to stop this behavior can influence.

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That is, brands offer a promise of personal validation through possession, which can ultimately land consumers on an endless, addictive treadmill.

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"We made a promise to have a fair trial based on the law of the land and we wanted this historical trial to be just and fair in order to give the rights to its true owners, no matter what the sentence will be, " he said.

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The sun is a pale smudge in the sky, a pinhole promise of light and warmth, as we lurch and bump across the frozen land in pursuit.

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