But he cannot point to any reason the old promise might now become a reality after five years of failure.
Though Everton dominated possession, the fine link-up play down the left between Pienaar and Baines asked real questions of Villa right-winger Marc Albrighton - and though he was perhaps naive defensively, the 20-year-old showed real promise going forward.
Speaking later during the press conference, 32-year-old Klitschko repeated his promise to make Haye regret his words.
And table tennis runs in the family - Mr Buddell's 15-year-old son is showing promise and his partner Marketa is a former champion in the Czech Republic.
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However, we have been here before and it is an old corporate PR ploy to under promise and then over deliver.
Teenager Biggar is not just competition for Hook for Wales but also at the Ospreys, as the 19-year-old begins to fulfil his enormous promise.
The group notes that old and new energy sources have both promise and risk.
The group notes that old and new energy sources have both promise and risk for society and nature, since natural gas and wind energy produce less pollution than coal.
Conservatives can point to comprehensive reform packages that will actually augment the safety net, so that it better fulfills the promise of preventing poverty in old age, but without imposing an economy-crushing burden on young workers.
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Mr Yanagisawa, who has repeatedly argued against old-style quick fixes, refuses to promise this.
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What they found, however, is that by deploying the new promise of cloud computing within the old IT framework of integrating lots of disparate pieces, those benefits have been diluted and delayed.
Stockpile reductions promise less than one-tenth of the old stockpile will remain active.
"I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America, and we believed in that promise, " the 59-year-old Chicago native said.
This is the promise of the rotary engine, a century-old technology that stalled two decades ago but may rev again.
Even the old faces being returned to parliament are singing a new tune: many promise, as a matter of the first order, to change the electoral system.
But biopharming's great promise lies in the ability of gene-splicing techniques to make old plants do new things.
America may find it has to promise that the new Iraq will honour those debts and that, even if old oil contracts are not honoured, opponents of the war will not be excluded from new contracts.
Unlike days of old, Washington doesn't need piles of gold, nor does the government need to promise to exchange gold at a fixed rate for dollars, as it did under the traditional gold standard.
Saban quickly threw out all the old programming, making an exception only for Robertson's 700 Club. (A promise to retain that religious show was part of the sale agreement.) But the new slate of shows didn't draw the audience or the advertising volume Saban and Fox had hoped for.
The 58-year-old head, who is due to retire at the end of the school year, said the promise to perform Psy's hit dance came very much on the spur of the moment.
Hence, scrap the non-compete agreements and gardening leaves, but only on the condition that they are moving far away, and promise them a sumptuous dinner and lavish drinking budget if they come back to visit their old friends at your firm.
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Disney should promise to never alter its new films and should give fans a re-release of the old films sans those edits.
She contends that the old Madison Avenue days of a brand being defined by its logo and a tag line spelling out its promise are over.
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