issue a promise

The officer in charge of the place the accused is being held in custody can issue a promise to appear.

Like an exhausted fighter still confident he could end the fight with one punch, Francis issued a promise.

As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984.

The present Conservative government found it much more difficult to introduce and regulate charges than it had anticipated, an indication of the difficulty being the long delay in issuing a promised consultative document on charges and the further delay before guidelines were produced.

Beginning in the 1770s, many Acadians were encouraged to return through the policies of Nova Scotia Governor Michael Francklin who guaranteed Catholic worship, land grants and issued a promise that there would be no second expulsion (At this time, Nova Scotia included present-day New Brunswick).

A1 CLINTON'S RECORD ON WELFARE Bill Clinton, who four years ago issued a promise to "end welfare as we know it," has in fact moved to change the system, but in a remarkable retreat from the vision of welfare that he had once outlined.