This young man had friends, a family who loved him, and a promising career.

Objects in the room told the story of the dead woman's promising career.

I was the one with the promising career and all that, right?

Two weeks later his season was over and a very promising career changed, forever.

He had once killed a man and so ended a promising academic career.

His unexpected death in 1733 cut short a promising career.

Not long ago she'd had a promising career as a lawyer in a city she loved.

Her promising military career was cut short by death from cancer seven years later.

The illness came in the middle of a very promising medical career.

It was, to say the least, a sad end to a promising career.