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keep a promise

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keep a promise and keep one's promise
to make good on a promise; to fulfill one's promise. If you can't keep your promises, you shouldn't make them in the first place.
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What forces compel individuals to keep a promise made with "good" intentions when there is no longer any practical reason to do so?
Dion has just launched a world tour in Johannesburg, doing so, she proudly announced, in order to keep a promise she had made to Mandela, who obligingly posed for photos with Dion, her husband and son for Canadian Hello
The governor, in a televised speech, said that his decision to step down after a second term was to keep a promise to his family.
 
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