President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

His poetic talent, his poetic promise, his poetic ripeness - it hasn't yet burgeoned or made itself manifest.

他的写诗才华，写诗的抱负，诗作的成熟度,-都还没能彰显出来。

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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But critics pointed out that world leaders made a similar promise more than ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

He made Robinson promise that he would never show his anger on the baseball field.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

But he made a promise to the Philippine people.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

He made me promise to keep his secret.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

President Obama made a promise to the newly graduated Navy and Marine officers.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

And if you don't kill us I'll do my best to protect you.'" Swan has kept the promise, his eyes opened to environmental problems made worse by a warming climate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

We are encouraging and appealing to the president to make real on his promise which he made during his campaign in 2006 that if he became president he was going to repeal this law,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28