6 sentences with 'promising'
Example sentences and phrases with the word promising and other words derived from it.
• « Dr Stanley Birge, a geriatrician at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, says these studies are "the most promising ever done in Alzheimer's research". »
• « Vespasian's eldest son, Titus (r. 79 - 81 CE) had been groomed to follow his father and started out as a promising and competent emperor. »
• « Before his climactic battle in 312 CE to defeat his last rival to the imperial throne, Constantine had a vision claiming to have been sent by the Christian God, promising him victory if he converted to Christianity. »
• « The King was, as was typical of Louis XVI, unsure how to proceed. He addressed the representatives of the three estates a few days later, promising reform, and in the face of continued defiance, ordered the representatives of the three estates to unite in the National Assembly. »
• « Garibaldi succeeded because he won the support of the Sicilian peasants by suspending taxes and promising to divide up the large estates and distribute the land. »
• « In Russia, however, industrialisation was limited to some of the major cities in western Russia, and most of the population remained poor peasants in small villages. This did not seem a promising scenario for an industrial working class revolution that Marx theorised. »