Thaksin had earlier promised to not accept the premiership if he received less than half the total vote.

But the recommendations were far murkier than the zero-tolerance policy that had been promised by some cardinals just hours earlier.

Kỳ had two weeks earlier promised to use his planes against any coup attempt, but there was no reaction to begin with.

Indeed, Chávez had earlier promised that Fujimori would not run in the 2000 elections.

It didn't matter what the other had promised earlier, in a moment of rational thought, away from the carnage in which they found themselves now.

As promised earlier, gender differences exist within interruptions too.

Somehow, scandalously, the key lime pie he'd been promised earlier in the day had disappeared.

But his fury was clearly evident in the detailed cable he sent, as promised earlier, to Marshall.

But the recommendations were less clear-cut than the zero-tolerance policy that was promised by some cardinals just hours earlier.

Mr. Bush had promised four years earlier to fix the troubled agency.