7 sentences with 'promise'
Example sentences and phrases with the word promise and other words derived from it.
• « By far the most important thing Abraham did, according to Jewish belief, was to accept the Covenant, the promise made between the God Yahweh (the 'name' of God is derived from the Hebrew characters for the phrase 'I am who I am', God's enigmatic response when the prophet Moses asked for his name) and the Hebrews. »
• « The special relationship between Him and the Hebrews remained, as did the promise of a kingdom of peace, but the Hebrews now maintained that He was available to them wherever they went and whatever happened to them. »
• « In a single passage short enough to remember, the Creed declared belief in Christ's identity as part of God ("consubstantial with the Father"), Christ's status as the son of God and of the Virgin Mary, Christ's resurrection, and the promise of Christ's return at the end of the world. »
• « In addition to the promise of salvation, and equally important for many of the knights who flocked to the Crusader banner, was the promise of booty (and, again, Urban II's speech explicitly promised the Crusaders wealth and land). »
• « In many cases, the Dutch East India Company merely used the promise of protection as a smokescreen to seize complete control of a given area (especially in Indonesia, which eventually became a Dutch colony), while in other areas local rulers remained in political control but lost power over their own spice production and trade. »