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promising English

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Definitions in simple English

promising

If something is promising, it shows promise; it will happen in the desired way. If something is promising, it is encouraging; it gives people confidence.

promising

showing possibility of achievement or excellence a promising young man (= bright, hopeful) full or promise had a bright future in publishing the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career a hopeful new singer on Broadway

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Simple sentences

It seems that he is a promising youth.
Tom is a promising young man.
Tom is a promising young musician.
That sounds promising.
He's a very promising young man.
That sounds quite promising, doesn't it?
A politician who makes lots of promises is something different than a promising politician.
I don't remember promising that.
Tom is a promising student.
Mary is a promising student.
What are you promising me?
It looks very promising.
It's a promising month but you should pay attention!
Tom is a young, promising actor.
I haven't read both his novels, but judging from the one I have read, he seems to be a promising writer.
Now he is recognized as one of the most promising writers.
He is a promising young man.
The researcher suggested promising directions for treating the cancer.
He is a promising student.
That doesn't sound very promising.
It looked promising.
That was promising.

Movie subtitles

The new crime was promising new laurels for Kravtsov.
The teachers at Miss Porter's School thought it was very promising.
By promising these things, brutes have risen. But they lie!
Easily the most promising of the season's newcomers is Juan Gallardo.
Say, Mr. Kane, as long as you're promising there's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you ain't bought yet.
Pa been promising you that but you're gonna die and be buried in just what you've got on.
Promising.
Most promising.
They aren't gonna send us out tonight after promising us a rest?
Sounds very promising.
Look at you. Dr. Petersen, the promising psychoanalyst, is now all of a sudden a schoolgirl in love with an actor, nothing else.
For 20 years I've been talking about it and promising the publishers it'll be delivered next spring.
Fine thing, promising the kid.
She kept promising each time was the last.
Quite promising.
Promising these things, brutes have risen. But they lie!
How does it sound? Promising. Most promising.
After promising me, you wouldn't dare.
Dr. Petersen, the promising psychoanalyst, is now all of a sudden a schoolgirl in love with an actor, nothing else.
He was the most promising young cellist in Europe and we were so happy and so much in love.
While I've been in Europe, he's become a promising young businessman.
The weekend was nearly over, and I could hardly expect providence to offer me so promising a chance again.
And, artistically, very promising.
He keeps promising a disclosure that will prove his innocence.
She had a languorous, promising look. Countess Beauchamp Dubourg de Catinax!
Promising. Most promising.
I wish you hadn't done this, especially after promising me.
He left, promising to return.
The Reeve's gun, Mr. Chairman. is one of the most promising developments I've seen. from some points of view.
Very promising. Yeah, but he's breaking everybody's eardrums.
I don't remember promising you that.
That's not a very promising situation for a young lawyer.
Don't go promising to marry him.

News and current affairs

The recent advent of fiscal advisory councils is a promising institutional start.
It is certainly one of the more innovative and promising ideas to emerge from a rather barren policy landscape.
The most promising areas for international cooperation today most likely concern problems posed for states by third parties such as criminals and terrorists.
In the long term, that would be more promising for the EU - and for the global economy - than the demand-driven performance that Germany is currently enjoying.
Fortunately, promising new models for making education more coherent and capacious are emerging.
On that front, there are promising signs.
Medical professionals know how often seemingly promising new therapies turn out, after careful study, not to work, or even to be harmful.
The problem is that the international community's credibility in promising universal education has been compromised; it has pledged to achieve this goal in at least 12 UN-sponsored declarations since 1950.
So expectations outpace reality, with politicians contributing to this by promising more than they can deliver--and thus losing the trust of their constituents.
Draghi reversed the euro's slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments' bonds.
But Osborne is back as Chancellor, promising even tougher cuts over the next five years.
The fact that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally backed the effort makes it all the more promising.
Promising one thing and delivering another was not so much a weakness of his government as its organizing principle.
There is a third solution, which Europe may come to realize is the most promising for all: implement the institutional reforms, including the necessary fiscal framework, that should have been made when the euro was launched.
That would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on beleaguered American families - hardly the solution that US politicians are promising.
The situation may be more promising than it appears, but one cannot deny that hope for real changes on the ground has faded since talks were re-launched two years ago.
If the economic impact of China's growing global importance on southern Africa is promising, but uncertain, what about the geopolitical implications?
But there are promising signs that, over time, the advanced countries' difficulties will trigger a healthy, if belated, shift in Asia's development strategy, with China leading the way.
Another promising development is bioplastics, which have begun to compete with petroleum-based products in certain short-lifespan applications - such as packaging and agriculture - over the last two decades.
In 1986, Nakasone went to Beijing at the personal invitation of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and laid the cornerstone for a Sino-Japanese Youth Exchange Center, promising to forge future friendships with China.
It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.
To make matters worse, the increase in welfare spending that the SNP is promising Scotland's voters would have to be paid for primarily by taxpayers in England.

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