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How to use the word Promising in a Sentence? Page #6

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Bernie Sanders is over-promising. He's insensitive to the plight of black people, and what good is it if you don't take lobbyist money and don't acknowledge the No. 1 threat to America and to the world is the factory farming lobby because it is poisoning the planet quickly.

Russell Simmons

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Asia Pacific region is promising for us, for regional jets. We are right now working really hard on sales promotion in the Asia Pacific region.

Hiromichi Morimoto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Obama isn't that much different from Trump. He was promising big change, he managed to look like an outsider and a fresh face, and he got people to believe in him, not just in what he was promising issues-wise and policy-wise, many of these independents now see in Trump what they wanted Obama to provide. The Donald is most definitely outside the system, yet people feel like they know him.

Bill Hillsman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

New therapies are urgently needed for obesity. sLR11 seems promising but more work is needed to confirm if this is a relevant.

Carole Sztalryd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This research is a promising first step but we need to study [labels in other age groups] before a major policy is unveiled that could have unintended negative consequences for particular segments of the population.

Sara Folta

Found on CNN
8 years ago

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one third of doctors prescribe exercise in primary care, this is promising, but more doctors should discuss and give brief advice to their patients about the benefits of exercise and refer patients with diabetes to structured exercise programs.

Huseyin Naci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

AIIB is a promising institution addressing investment needs, and will help close financing gaps in many countries.

Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Recently we have seen drug companies setting very high prices for promising immunotherapies, including nivolumab, there is no question that this pioneering and innovative treatment improves and extends the life of patients with non-small cell lung cancer – a disease that has very limited treatment options – but at this price it is very clearly too expensive.

Paul Workman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesn't make you sound strong, it makes you sound like you're in over your head.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

On infrastructure, that is very promising, investing in infrastructure is one of the most promising ways to unlock growth potentials.

Sony Kapoor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investing in infrastructure is one of the most promising ways to unlock growth potentials.

Sony Kapoor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is an organization with... a number of promising pieces that have the potential for a very bright future.

Famer Colangelo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fast fashion companies are like drug pushers : they go to these countries promising to lift millions out of poverty, they get the business, and then once they start production in that country they start pushing prices down, they can always impose the lowest wages and local governments and entire countries are enslaved by that. Say you are in Bangladesh, if you are too expensive they'll go to Vietnam or Myanmar, which they are doing.

Colin Firth

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the beginning he was very promising.

Moeed Yusuf

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As much as it's a very strong headline number the underlying is not quite as promising.

Andrew Kelvin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While finding a way forward on Syria will not be easy -- it's not going to be automatic -- it is the most promising opportunity for a political opening we have seen, what that transitional government could look like, who would be part of it, how they would meet and at what frequency -- all of this is up in the air.

State John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That was interesting and promising and gave a proof of concept that these vaccines can be developed. There's a lot of work ongoing and we're hopeful that we'll have an HSV vaccine in the future.

Nathalie Broutet

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I last looked, and that was early this morning, it was about 350, so it will be north of that, we're getting information from people and we will keep them updated. Hopefully a class action is not needed but it's not looking promising for Volkswagen.

Maurice Blackburn principal Damian Scattini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're getting information from people and we will keep them updated. Hopefully a class action is not needed but it's not looking promising for Volkswagen.

Maurice Blackburn principal Damian Scattini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While' breakthrough' is an official designation that may lead to accelerated drug approval,' promising' is just a descriptor term that The FDA has used in about half of its press releases to describe breakthrough drugs.

Tamar Krishnamurti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What the company is promising is a fictitious tale. This is not like a real investment because it will never be realized or returned.

Long Liu

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What is happening in Europe is that responsible governments cannot go promising to people what the reality won't allow them to implement, when they come to power the reality is that they have to confront problems and have to do exactly what the Portuguese government has done.

Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mr Salehi said aerial exploration surveys across the country are going well and the results are promising. Of course, after aerial surveys the work of ground exploration will begin, at the moment these efforts are proceeding well, but for the final results and analysis we must wait until aerial and ground operations are finished throughout the country.

Behrouz Kamalvandi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many plant-based drugs are not found in large quantities in nature and are difficult to make in the lab, mimicking the way nature makes these molecules is a promising alternative, but to do that we need to find the genes. This can be a major challenge because plant genomes can be very large and genes are hard to find.

Stanford University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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