The state pension, also linked to the RPI, must go up by at least 2.5%, following a promise made by ministers a few years ago when inflation fell and pensioners got shirty.
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In France, the presidential office of Nicolas Sarkozy found itself having to backtrack on a promise made by Mr Sarkozy that big-name politicians elected to the European Parliament for his UMP party would have to take their seats.
Jasper, chief executive of Dolby Laboratories, had only 12 more days to fulfill a promise made six months earlier to the Walt Disney Co. that his company would build, test and install digital cinema equipment on 84 screens capable of showing Disney's latest cartoon, Chicken Little, in 3-D.
Or, perhaps, the fact that this new move is a revival of a promise Labour made in 1997 is, in a way, part of its appeal.
It was a promise she made on the campaign trail, but voters were sceptical.
In his remarks, Obama said the funding would be in line with a promise he made earlier this year to increase levels of research.
For Merck's Peter Kim, the work amounts to fulfillment of a promise he made to his predecessor, Edward Scolnick , who headed Merck's laboratories for 17 years.
The MFA and other US museums are carrying out a promise they made in June 1998 to check the histories of paintings acquired during the Holocaust and World War II.
First, because folks who work hard should be able to make a decent living, I kept a promise I made when I campaigned for this office and cut taxes for 95 percent of working Americans.
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John Kerry, the Democratic candidate in 2004, followed suit, and in 2008 Barack Obama broke a promise and made history by becoming the first big-party candidate to forgo public financing for both the primary and the general election.
And then we'll travel to Cairo, in which I am delivering on a promise I made during the campaign to provide a framework, a speech of how I think we can remake relations between the United States and countries in the Muslim world.
That particular game was plagued by operational issues, including an embarrassing delay of the national anthem, so afterward, a frustrated Yormark made a promise to fans via social media.
While speaking at a 2009 Prostate Cancer Foundation event, I made a promise to more than 100 of the best prostate cancer researchers of the world: "I will make certain that, in my lifetime, I will get a blue ribbon out there to match every pink ribbon!"
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a "promise" made by the government to all children and young people under the age of 18 years.
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When asked by an analyst whether he still vows to return to sales growth this year, a promise he has made repeatedly and reiterated last November, Johnson appeared to leave the door open.
So I would say that this is mostly about coming through on a promise that he made to the American people that he would have a comprehensive energy plan that would include some increased domestic production of energy but also some big investments in renewable technology, as well as finding ways to promote efficiency and things like that.
Ashcroft says he expects Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to keep a tax cut promise he made to Ashcroft and four other conservative senators, regarding upcoming House-Senate negotiations on a final budget agreement.
In the campaign last year, you all remember, I made a promise to pass it.
Gebrselassie was fulfilling a long-time promise made to race chairman Brendan Foster by taking part in the race.
They are America's finest sons and daughters, and we made a promise to care for them after they serve.
Medicaid would have paid for those expenses, but mom had made a promise.
"You made a promise that you have broken and that is why we are all here today, " said Mr Thwaites.
Congress made a promise to the American people to produce those savings.
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When Erik enlisted in the Army, Deven made a promise that if anything bad ever happened, he would finish what his brother started.
Lord Ashcroft had "made a promise" to pay tax in the UK, she said, urging the Tories to clarify whether he had done so.
"I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga had made a promise to his constituents to build a paved bypass road that reached from one end of Kibera to the other.
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"I made a promise that I would not sell Scott and I will not, for any amount of money, break that promise to the West Ham supporters, " he said.
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