written promise
Example Sentences
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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
Golden was released from custody with a written promise to appear in court, Souza said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2015
Moreover, by inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery, Amazon is contradicting its own written promise to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2014
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
The British government passed an act which said that every written promise to pay money must be upon stamped paper, which could only be got by buying it from British officers.
From Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
