1.   Party leaders will wait until after the service is privatised before making specific spending promises.

2.   But the administration has studiously avoided specific promises or threats of military action for fear of provoking a confrontation.

3.   But, he said, making specific promises could be problematical.

4.   During the negotiations, the Muslims kept pressing for a specific U.S. promise of arms and training, preferably in writing.

5.   Even Insulza was careful not to make any specific promises to the British and Spanish.

6.   In this study, gene therapy in combination with the chemotherapeutic drug topotecanhas shown specific promise.

7.   It was a values speech more than a policy speech, except for some specific economic promises.

8.   It was a values speech more than a programmatic speech, except for some specific economic promises.

9.   One explanation for the absence of specific promises has to do with timing.

10.   Smith demanded that federal law-enforcement agencies make specific promises for reducing the drug and human traffic, but most refused.