Still, as absinthe's recent European comeback demonstrates, the promise of rare new altered states remains.

There still remained a promise of better things.

We dared not burden ourselves with anything but the most essential, but then there remained my mistress's promise to Pharaoh.

Whether opponents will chalk the episode up to a verbal flub or an unfulfilled promise remains to be seen.

It was 6 on our final evening in London, and one promise to my children remained unfulfilled: the visit to Abbey Road.

"We made sacrifices and later found that the promises they gave us went with the wind, and the Iraqis' plight remained as it is," he said.

Heb 4:1-4: Let us fear lest while the promise of entering his rest remains, any one of you should seem to be wanting.

I might not get it - my friend might not be a good writer - but no matter, the promise remained.

In the opinion of some, his early intellectual promise has remained disappointingly unfulfilled.

I believe that the promise of solving illnesses, increasing yield and cleaning up the environment etc remain to be proven.