Gierek promised economic reform and instituted a program to modernize industry and increase the availability of consumer goods, doing so mostly through foreign loans.

Jeff Snyder is a spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: " I am not here engaged in ... recommending ... policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results crime ... Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all.

Although Yeltsin promised that he would abandon his unpopular neoliberal austerity policies and increase public spending to help those suffering from the pain of capitalist reforms, within a month of his election, Yeltsin issued a decree canceling almost all of these promises.

" In 1984, he had promised to increase the military budget and the regular force to 92, 000 troops, but the budget was cut and the troop level fell to below 80, 000 by 1993.

Although Toledo originally promised tax cuts, violent protests by civil servants prompted the increase in social sector spending that Toledo had also promised, which necessitated tax increases.

The 1955 Modernisation Plan promised expenditure of in excess of £ 1, 240 million ; steam locomotives would be replaced with diesel and electric locomotives, traffic levels would increase and the system was predicted to be back in profit by 1962.

In the last week of the campaign, Charest promised an additional $ 700 million in tax cuts — some of it coming for the additional equalization money from the 2007 federal budget ; reduction of hospital wait times ; improvement and increase of French courses at school ; an increase of the number of daycare spaces ; and an increase in tuition fees for university students ($ 50 per semester until 2012 ).

The new station also promised an increase to eleven hours a week of regional programming of mixed genres.

Gierek promised economic reform and instituted a program to modernize industry and increase the availability of consumer goods, doing so mostly through foreign loans.

Chandler promised to repeal the unpopular sales tax, lower the gasoline tax, oppose any increase in property taxes, and end the common practice of assessing state employees a percentage of their salaries to be used for campaign activities.

The UFP promised to be a party of the ballot box and of the streets, meaning that it would work to increase awareness of social problems and for progressive social change even between elections, particularly with regards to the rights of workers and of the unemployed.

During the 2005 election, the party promised to increase resources to public schools, believing that more money would lead to fewer pupils per teacher, and thus more individualised and personal instructions.

To increase his strength, Imán appealed to the Maya population, providing them with arms for the first time since the conquest, and promised that he would give them land free of tribute and exploitation.

In 2001, LACMA was criticized for hosting a major exhibition of Broad's collection without having secured a promised gift of the works, an act that is prohibited at many prominent art institutions because it can increase the market value of the collection.

In 1991, S3 Graphics introduced the S3 86C911, which its designers named after the Porsche 911 as an indication of the performance increase it promised.

The Strategic Defence Review in 1998 continued this by removing the RNR Cold War mine warfare role, but promised to increase the RNR by 350 posts.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and promised, if elected, to increase school funding, balance the budget, and protect the Chesapeake Bay.

All three opposition parties promised to increase the pension, with the Social Crediters and CCF even stating the specific amounts it would be raised by.

However, Richard Hatfield and the governing Progressive Conservatives also promoted a platform that promised to increase the role of the Acadian people and culture within the province.

The Walt Disney Company promised to increase this number with more attractions like those in Disneyland as well as more unique ones.

Pope's party won 20 out of 30 seats in the April election, and he proceeded to Ottawa where the persuaded the Canadian government to increase the promised annual subsidy to PEI by a further $ 25, 000.

He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

Pan asked why the Athenians did not honor him and the awed Pheidippides promised that they would do so from then on.

Although conservatives opposed attempts to allow greater representation of the middle class in parliament, in 1834 they conceded that electoral reform could not be reversed and promised to support further reforms so long as they did not erode the institutions of church and state.

He said he was promised a minimum of one percent of the producers ' net profits of the film and did not receive the full amount.

But if he did not succeed until now, or if he was killed, it becomes known that he is not this one of whom the Torah had promised us, and he is indeed like all proper and wholesome kings of the House of David who died.

He also promised not to change the ROC state symbols or declare formal independence as long as the People's Republic of China did not attack Taiwan.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

All these events did not help the new-country to reach the level of prosperity, economic growth and development the new rulers had promised to its population.

The promised R500, 000 did not materialise.

He promised to serve only one term and did not run for reelection.

For instance, just as Moses did not lead the children of Israel into the promised land, but Joshua did, so Moses ' law could not lead them into Heaven but the new covenant mediated by Jesus ( the same name as " Joshua ") could.

The R6000 did not deliver the promised performance benefits, and although it saw some use in Control Data machines, it quickly disappeared from the mainstream market.

Conrad II's army arrived to Lusatia in the autumn of 1029 and began the siege of Bautzen ; but the German troops did not receive the promised support of the Lutici tribe and the expedition failed.

After his death, his canonization was demanded by King Valdemar IV of Denmark and promised by his successor, Pope Gregory XI, as early as 1375, but this did not take place owing to the disorders of the time.

* Richard officially proclaimed his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, son of Geoffrey, as his heir, and Tancred promised to marry one of his daughters to Arthur when he came of age, giving a further twenty thousand ounces of gold that would be returned by Richard if Arthur did not marry Tancred's daughter.

" East Pakistan did not enjoy the benefits that came with the economical progress and the majority of promised funds for East Pakistan were never issued.

Consequently, in May 1074 he did penance at Nuremberg – in the presence of the papal legates – to atone for his continued friendship with the members of his council who had been banned by Gregory, took an oath of obedience, and promised his support in the work of reforming the Church.

He had promised earlier not to raise the issue of the charter again, but he did.

Chirac announced that he did not want to come back as prime minister, suggesting the appointment of Edouard Balladur, who had promised that he would not run for the presidency against Chirac in 1995.

Another attempt to attack Ascalon failed when Conrad's allies did not appear as promised, and Conrad returned to Germany.

" Roosevelt himself did not have a clear idea of the New Deal at this point, so he promised no specific programs and tried to appeal to practically all groups of voters, even Republicans.

The causes leading the Selinuntines to abandon the cause of the other Greeks, and take part with the Carthaginians during the great expedition of Hamilcar ( 480 BCE ) are unknown ; they had even promised to send a contingent to the Carthaginian army, which, however did not arrive till after its defeat