1.  What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.

2.  He lost a promising job as a salesman at a software company.

3.  Seven others have had promising job interviews, and three have enrolled in college.

4.  This Barbie looks excited, dashing off to a promising job with a major airline.

5.  For most of his Peruvian supporters, Alejandro Toledo dresses in casual shirts and jeans, promising jobs and education in messages garnished with measured doses of street slang.

6.  Hindu groups accuse Christian missionaries of seeking converts among poor, often illiterate villagers by promising jobs or money.

7.  Japanese companies have been slow to jump on the global downsizing bandwagon because employers in this country have customarily ensured worker loyalty by promising them jobs for life.

8.  Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin Sullivan said Democrats were divided over promising union jobs.

9.  Sithole, an ex-convict, lured many of his victims to secluded areas by promising them jobs.