It is also possible that he agreed to pay an annual tribute in return for the Goths ' promise to respect Roman territory.

Now, when many currencies are fiat money, the " promise to pay " consists of the promise to accept that currency to pay for taxes.

An elder in his church offered to pay for his college education if he would promise to become a minister, but Cleveland declined.

Eventually, France agreed to pay Daguerre a pension for his formula, in exchange for his promise to announce his discovery to the world as the gift of France, which he did in 1839.

Many American casinos offer free memberships in " slot clubs ," which return a fraction of the amount of money that is bet in the form of comps ( complimentary food, drinks, hotel rooms, or merchandise ), or sometimes as cash or a promise to pay cash at a later date.

A guarantee is the promise of a third party to honor the obligation of a party to a contract should that party be unable or unwilling to do so ( usually a guarantee is limited to an obligation to pay a debt ).

Stearns suggests that this is because Memmius reneged on a promise to pay for a new school to be built on the site of the old Epicurean school.

Yet Manuel's attention was to be drawn to Antioch again in 1156, when Raynald of Châtillon, the new Prince of Antioch, claimed that the Byzantine emperor had reneged on his promise to pay him a sum of money, and vowed to attack the Byzantine province of Cyprus.

An interesting type of illocutionary speech act is that performed in the utterance of what Austin calls performatives, typical instances of which are " I nominate John to be President ", " I sentence you to ten years ' imprisonment ", or " I promise to pay you back.

The hustle involved claims of moving £ 500, 000 to the victims ' bank account from Sierra Leone but the victims needed to pay £ 5, 000 for the paperwork in exchange for a bogus-bouncing check, with the promise that they can keep 20 % (£ 100, 000 ) of the funds, which never materializes.

We therefore most devoutly promise God that we will henceforth pay greater reverence than ever to churches and holy places.

Gradually, Lina learns that Johnnie has continued to gamble on the horses, despite his promise to quit, and that he has sold family heirloom chairs given to them as a wedding present to help pay for things.

When from November 1670 William visited Charles to urge the House of Stuart to pay back a part of the large debt it owed to the House of Orange, Charles intended to make his nephew part of the conspiracy and promise him to be made Sovereign Prince of Holland, a puppet state, in return for collaboration with the invading forces.

Hamilcar ’ s soldiers, who had been kept together only by his personal authority and by the promise of good pay, broke out into open mutiny and marched on Carthage and encamped at Tunis.

Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money.

To " pay the piper " now means to face the inevitable consequences of one's actions, possibly alluding to the story where the villagers broke their promise to pay the Piper for his assistance in ridding the town of the rats.

He is motivated to continue his fruitless search by the promise of a large reward, recently doubled, upon the letter's safe return, and he will pay 50, 000 francs to anyone who can help him.

If a public body passes a law stating that it'll pay something later ( a kind of promise ), it keeps the right to change the law later ( and not to pay ).

The anthropologist David Graeber argues in Debt: The First 5000 Years that trade starts with some sort of credit namely the promise to pay later for already handed over goods.

In 1992, TSO musicians had accepted a 16 % pay cut because of a threat of bankruptcy to the orchestra, with a promise from management to make up the loss in subsequent contract negotiations.

" The following season, 1975, would be the first season that the Padres would not finish in the National League West cellar ( finishing fourth ), and brought the promise of an owner who would make the necessary changes to the organization.

As he was preparing to return to Lexington in 1829, his slave Charlotte Dupuy sued Clay for her freedom and that of her two children, based on a promise by an earlier owner.

By this point, Fogerty was not only at direct odds with his bandmates, but he had also come to see the group's relationship with Fantasy Records as onerous, feeling that label owner Saul Zaentz had reneged on his promise to give the band a better contract.

When a brand's promise extends beyond a particular product, its owner may leverage it to enter new markets.

Peterson had signed for Shadow but Lotus owner Colin Chapman convinced him to stay with Lotus due to a promise Chapman made to accelerate the rate of development on the Lotus 77.

In 1959, the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) became interested in the islands and signed a contract / promise with the owner, Luís Rocha Machado.

Coming on the heels of the fees the Nets had to pay for joining the NBA, owner Roy Boe reneged on a promise to raise Erving's salary.

Dupuy lost her suit because it was based on the promise of freedom from an owner before Clay.

After the season, McGinnity and some of his teammates threatened to quit the Giants, accusing Brush, now the Giants owner, of going back on a promise to pay the team a monetary bonus for having finished among the top three teams in the NL, as well as a share of the gate receipts from exhibition games, for which they were paid $ 56. 35 ($ in current dollar terms ), though Brush allegedly had made over $ 200, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ).

Schaefer extracted a promise from Irsay that the Colts owner would call Schaefer first before moving the team.

Lockton spent the next nine months acquiring options on all of the fourteen parcels and then leveraged his position as the drivers ’ representative on the board of USAC ( United States Auto Club ) the sanctioning body for the Indianapolis 500 race ; and his personal friendship with Tony Hulman, owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to obtain not only the promise of a USAC sanctioned race, but also the commitment and involvement of Indianapolis Motor Speedway personnel.

SAVE Britain's Heritage stated that " No other owner of a Grade II * listed building would be allowed to strip out interiors of this quality on the basis of a vague promise to display a few key pieces in the basement and find a home for the rest in some other building not yet designed or built.

Antonio Luis Ferré, the industrialist's son, many years later related that his father spent a sleepless night, worried that the gallery owner wouldn't keep his promise.

In 1907, James L. Flood, son of the original owner, made good on his late father's promise and conveyed an undivided half interest to O ' Neill, Sr. Four months later, declining health caused O ' Neill to deed his interest to his son, Jerome.

The owner of the place in return gave then a receipt " I promise to pay the bearer a sum of ( whatever amount of gold deposited )" and that is how the paper currency came about.

It comprises a complaint that the ownership ( title ) of a parcel of land or other real property is defective in some fashion, typically where title to the property is ambiguousfor example, where it has been conveyed by a quitclaim deed through which the previous owner disclaims all interest, but does not promise that good title is conveyed.

The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.

Increased experimentation with multipurpose agencies, especially those that combine afresh the traditional functions of family and child welfare services, holds rich promise for the future.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In American contexts, the word " Camelot " is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and many were inspired by Kennedy's speeches, vision, and policies.

Biblical scholars describe the Bible's theologically-motivated history writing as " salvation history ", meaning a history of God's saving actions that give identity to Israel-the promise of offspring and land to the ancestors, the exodus from Egypt ( in which God saves Israel from slavery ), the wilderness wandering, the revelation at Sinai, and the hope for the future life in the promised land.

The object representing such an explicitly delayed evaluation is called a future or promise.

He tried to supplement his following by creating four of his Correr nephews cardinals – including the future Pope Eugene IV, despite his promise in the conclave that he would create no new cardinals.

The promise of a future resurrection appears in the Torah as well as in certain Jewish works, such as the Life of Adam and Eve, c 100 BC, and the Pharisaic book 2 Maccabees, c 124 BC.

" Tim Colling's creation holds promise in the future of the television industry, and the more exposure achieved, the more nations are able to benefit.

Traditionally, nuclear reactors have been used, although the new Spallation Neutron Source holds much promise in the near future.

Plant-on-chip devices show promise for future research in understanding the mechanism of sexual reproduction in A. thaliana.

In response his failure to gain control over Saxony, Henry II promise to hold future peace negotiations and then headed for the Duchy of Bavaria.

While he did promise no more future wars, he did not condemn the Mexican-American War or criticize Polk, and the Whigs had to follow his lead.

This was known as the Treaty of Vereeniging, and under its provisions, the two republics were absorbed into the British Empire, with the promise of self-government in the future.

Nonetheless, she had ceased to be involved in German political affairs and with an opponent on the throne, her future there did not promise anything significantly worthwhile.

Hope assumes a metanarrative, a story that serves as a promise or reason for expecting a better future.

The bills were backed only by the national government ’ s promise to redeem them and their value was dependent on public confidence in the government as well as the ability of the government to give out specie in exchange for the bills in the future.

Closed-cycle gas turbines based on helium or supercritical carbon dioxide also hold promise for use with future high temperature solar and nuclear power generation.

Rose also claims that “ in Haggai ’ s passage, one does not find a statement about Zerubbabel being YHVH ’ s anointed, or about his autonomous rule ( given by God ), present or future, and there is no explicit promise that God will make the nations submit to his chosen one.

Milner was a hard-line conservative and wanted forcibly to Anglicise the Afrikaans people ( the Boers ), and Milner and the British government wanted to assert victory by forcing the Boers to sign a humiliating peace treaty ; Kitchener wanted a more generous compromise peace treaty that would recognize certain rights for the Afrikaners and promise future self-government.

The NHL, to quell the controversy, promised the fans of Minnesota a return in the future with a new franchise ; that promise was fulfilled in 2000 when Minnesota was awarded the Minnesota Wild as an expansion franchise.

In her deathbed she only fears divine punishment for all she had done, and secures the promise of future deification by her grandson Claudius, an act which, she believes, will guarantee her a blissful afterlife.

Just before he had left Korea, Choi apparently had a disagreement with a wrestler named Hu, and the possibility of a future confrontation inspired him to train ; in his own words, " I would imagine that these were the techniques I would use to defend myself against the wrestler, Mr. Hu, if he did attempt to carry out his promise to tear me limb from limb when I eventually returned to Korea " ( Park, 1993, p. 242 ).

According to them, the behaviors Freud studied can be explained by simpler, known processes, such as salience biases ( e. g., a person abuses drugs because the promise of immediate pleasure is more compelling than the intellectual knowledge of harm sometime in the future ) and risk calculations ( e. g., a person drives recklessly or plays dangerous sports because the increases in status and reproductive success outweigh the risk of injury or death ).

His biographer Gordon A. Craig observes that this work gave few indications of his promise as a gifted writer: " Although the theme of incest, which was to occupy Fontane on later occasions, is touched upon here, the mawkishness of the tale ... is equaled by the lameness of its plot and the inertness of the style in which it is told, and characters Clärchen and her brother are both so colorless that no one could have guessed that their creator had a future as a writer.