1.   But the prospect of cheap and easy customer service on the Internet turned out to be a hollow promise.

2.   Progress in fashion has turned out to be as hollow a promise as progress elsewhere.

3.   That seemed like a hollow promise after what everyone has witnessed in the last four days.

4.   That he called a spade a rotten spade when the telecommunications interests bagged Congress with a hollow promise of communications law reform.

5.   They urge women to help the men and boys in their lives by talking with them about the hollow promises of the Adonis Complex.

6.   They were hollow promises at best.

7.   Traders said hollow promises by the government to help the Japanese economy were no longer enough to bolster the yen.

8.   Today many black Africans find liberation a hollow promise without economic power.