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hold promise

To have potential or be likely to achieve success. Our new recruit holds promise. I hope he can deliver during the season. Everyone thought the prototype held promise, but it didn't hold up during the testing phase.

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"The applications are frankly quite endless; anything where you have a distributed ledger which involves corporations or institutions can use this." While JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon has bashed bitcoin as a "fraud," the CEO and his managers have consistently said that blockchain and regulated digital currencies held promise. [Reference Link]:[https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/jp-morgan-is-rolling-out-the-first-us-bank-backed-cryptocurrency-to-transform-payments--.html]

JPMorgan to launch 'JPM Coin' cryptocurrency, CNBC reports

The 1979 revolution in Nicaragua that overthrew the Somoza dynasty dictatorship held promise of a leftist, multiparty democracy that all parts of society supported, and La Botz investigates why it failed.

What Went Wrong?: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis

Reflecting on Sharon's legacy, Oren argued that this model still held promise:

Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren: If Peace Talks Fail, Israel Should Withdraw from the West Bank

With a cast including Vidya Balan and Amitabh Bachchan, the film held promise. But it hasn't taken off yet.

New year a busy one for Vidya

It begins at the end of the Civil War when Reconstruction held promise that blacks would gain a measure of equality, but hopes were quickly and violently smashed.

Tademy, Lalita. Red River, a novel

The opening held promise. The stage was marked off by three stripes of light around the perimeter (design by Scott Borowka), as though to suggest a boxing ring or other contact-sport zone.

Pilobolus Dance Theatre

On Thursday a side-event was advertised that held promise; sponsored by an International Health Group, a session on HIV/AIDS would be held in the afternoon.

Pushing the 'Earth Charter'

For example, one specific NCIC 2000 concept that held promise as a valuable tool for law enforcement in theory demonstrated problems for users in reality.

NCIC 2000

And so, the premise of Shaking the Foundations -- to get prominent architects to speak, in a series of interviews, rather than to write -- held promise. But, the interviewers -- Knabe and Noennig -- are not interrogators, and the book does not quite lift the veil of inscrutability through which most Westerners -- and many Japanese -- view the works and pronouncements of these architects (many of them, like many of their Western colleagues, having realized that mystique has retail value).

LEARNING FROM THE JAPANESE CITY: West meets East in Urban Design

More than 30 small- scale studies published during the 1980s reported that treatment matching based on a number of individual characteristics held promise for alleviating alcoholism.

Alcoholics synonymous: heavy drinkers of all stripes may get comparable help from a variety of therapies

They were drawn by the chance to do what they called "Big Guy Science"--to tackle the handful of problems whose solutions held promise of a Nobel Prize.

Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene

(In the early 1970s, Deryagin and a few other researchers temporarily believed they had discovered polymeric forms of water that not only held promise as a cheap and abundant material even for furniture, but also posed a global environmental threat since the liquid oceans might convert into polymeric water.)

Diamond fever: new ways of coating just about anything with diamond may spawn a sparkling new industry