(a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.
(a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.
(a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.
(a.) Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.
(v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.
(v. t.) To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.
(v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.
(v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.
(v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(3) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(4) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(5) Measuring this value therefore is a very promising procedure.
(6) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.
(7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(8) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(9) On the basis of reports in the literature and of our own clinical experience it appears that melanocyte inhibiting factor (MIF) is a very promising therapeutic agent in the management of Parkinson's disease.
(10) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(11) The 20-25 year-old cohort was found to yield the most promising results; however, a statistical difference was not found to exist using the volume or area.
(12) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(13) The use of a new ultraviolet laser combined with a holographic grating spectrograph promises to increase the number of fluorescing species that can be detected simultaneously.
(14) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
(15) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(16) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(17) The most promising method was chemoradiotherapy using multifractionation of a daily dose of irradiation, the 4-year survival rate of 20% being achieved.
(18) Trials of these therapeutic schemes promise a higher efficacy of the therapeutic measures for gastroesophageal reflux.
(19) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(20) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
Resolve
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
(v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
(v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
(v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
(v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
(v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
(v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
(v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
(v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
(v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
(v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
(v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
(v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
(n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
(n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(2) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
(3) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
(4) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(5) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
(6) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
(7) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
(8) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
(9) In individuals who resolved their HCV infection or progressed to chronicity, anti-HCV IgM was produced transiently at or near the onset of clinically diagnosed acute hepatitis.
(10) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) Without operative correction of the tricuspid valve, secondary tricuspid regurgitation can resolve following mitral valve surgery alone.
(13) The aza analogue (RS)-3-hydroxy-2,5-pyrrolidinedione-3-acetic acid (6) of the five-membered citric anhydride (2) was prepared in the sequence citric acid----2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one-5,5-diacetic acid (1)----citric acid beta-amide (3)----6 and used to resolve ambiguities in the mechanism of the citrate synthase reaction.
(14) These findings resolved upon cessation of timolol and reappeared on 3 occasions shortly after reinstitution of the beta blocker therapy.
(15) The Pr(III)-induced shifts for several resolved nonexchangeable backbone proton resonances were compared with calculated shifts using the known x-ray structure.
(16) The data indicate that about 56% of the eyes responded to therapy with 1% F3TdR alone even when therapy was initiated after signs of stromal inflammation had begun to appear and epithelial disease was resolving.
(17) The infection responded to oxytetracycline and the anaemia subsequently resolved.
(18) No major complication was recorded and a case of asymptomatic pneumothorax resolved spontaneously within 48 hours.
(19) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
(20) A spokeswoman for the airport said it was resolved by 8.15am.