long-promised

This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.

Social networking and other digital media have long promised to open up wonderful new vistas, all from the comfort of our own homes.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

He has long promised to make the economy more energy efficient, but his plans in this area have always been somewhat murky.

Nokia's long-promised operating system revamp, which it says will catapult it back into the race, has just been delayed by several months.

A bigger economic prize would be if long-promised deposits of oil and gas were found offshore.

Mr Obama has long promised that health reform would cover the uninsured without adding to the deficit, while reining in long-term costs.

This flurry of sudden activity is another indication of how close you are to the changes long promised you by our Earth allies.

Laundry detergents and air fresheners have long promised to keep your house and clothes smelling sunshine fresh and rain shower clean.

A mergers and acquisition boom in emerging Asian economies has been long promised. Will 2007 be the year it materializes?

And state doctors and teachers plan to strike again if the government fails to give them long-promised big bonuses.

GM long promised to have a saleable prototype ready by 2010 but never delivered one.

That way, she can not influence new elections the government is holding as part of its long-promised move toward democracy.

Long-promised civil-service reform is about to be delivered. Deeper changes may take longer