written promise
Example Sentences
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He was eventually convicted in 2009 of a lower charge of failure to appear after he posted a written promise to appear.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023
He was ordered released from custody on his written promise to appear in court.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021
The Gastonia-based officer, Jerome John Letcavage, 44, was charged with larceny on Saturday afternoon and released with a written promise to appear in court, news outlets reported, citing the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office inmate database.
From Washington Times • Sep. 8, 2020
The theory behind this, which held up when tested in 2012, is that people who make a written promise feel bad if they do not honour it.
From Economist • Aug. 14, 2014
Ieyasu gave them a written promise that "no man should do them any wrong and that they should be maintained and defended as his own vassals."
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
