break promise

Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, gloated the day after the Turkish invasion: “Americans can’t be trusted at all since they break promise with anyone who depends on them.”

Niall Horan tweeted that “we are not splitting up,” while Louis Tomlinson posted “it’s just a break … Promise.”

Niall Horan tweeted that "we are not splitting up," while Louis Tomlinson posted "it's just a break ... Promise."

Then the Cooper children caught a lucky break: Promise saw her brother’s face on television, among government photos of children who had survived Ebola at the city’s clinics but were still separated from their families.

To break promise in these matters, she tells her husband, is as cruel as it would be for her to kill her own child, that being a crime of which she is incapable, for she is a devoted mother.