And often a career of great promise ends suddenly, in breakdown or death.
The biggest crowd in Warrington's Super League history watched a season of great promise begin with a resounding defeat for new Broncos coach John Monie.
Cooperation in the field of education holds great promise because no two other countries are better equipped to be partners in building the knowledge economy of the future.
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In 2008, candidate Obama was on the side of history and great promise.
The harsh reality is that today, even in the face of great hope and promise, African-American communities continue to be devastated by HIV.
President Reagan was optimistic about the great promise of economic reform, and he acted to restore the rewards and spirit of enterprise.
The great promise of the SAARC summit was that Vajpayee and Sharif could meet and talk for the first time since the nuclear tests.
The Caribbean delivers on its promise of great weather most of the year, beautiful beaches, great diving, even better sailing, seafood and a slower island pace.
The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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Millions of Iraqis went to the polls to cast ballots, something that generated great promise for the establishment of a democratic system.
And now marketers, retailers and businesses are realizing there is a promise of something great in its application: the rise of geo-marketing, geo-social marketing and loyalty marketing.
"The Creative Destruction of Medicine" an allusion to economist Joseph Schumpeter's description of "creative destruction" as an engine of business innovation is a venture capitalist's delight, describing dozens of medical technologies that show great promise.
"I guess like most, I fluctuate from the feeling that there is great promise for all of us, " says ((Sounder)) frontman Mike Aho.
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LaunchPad central shows great promise in terms of helping a startup team keep track of their business model canvas as it evolves based on your hypothesis, keeping track of customer contact as you get out of the building, and providing a way to engage mentors and advisors in the process.
The escalation of the Vietnam War and the utter failure of the Great Society to ameliorate poverty, far less deliver on its utopian promise of spiritual fulfillment, ended the third wave of liberalism.
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Great leaders keep the promise of the culture alive and always intact, regardless of the circumstances at hand.
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But semantic technology also holds great promise for all kinds of businesses.
But biopharming's great promise lies in the ability of gene-splicing techniques to make old plants do new things.
Here are the rest of the dynamic speakers, at least one of whom I promise will literally change your life and, in turn, the life of this great country of ours.
As our economy continues to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, tourism holds the promise of being an even bigger economic engine in communities across the country.
"Stem-cell research is in a very early state and while it may hold great promise we should not overstate the state of science, or politicise these issues, " he wrote in a recent edition of Nature magazine.
When Leslie and I were coming up in the practice of law, firms large, medium and small, tended to make associates equity partners if they were great lawyers and showed promise as productive shepherds of existing business.
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The AEGIS BMSP holds great promise for expanding missile defense radar coverage at a fraction of the cost of other approaches.
What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part through protests and struggles, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience, and always at great risk to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
There is also the promise of major infrastructure investment in what Mr Osborne called "the great arteries of Britain".
Just think of all the dead software companies--they may have had great products and great promise, but they just didn't make the grade.
It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.
Since children haven't yet had the chance to accomplish great and lasting things for humanity, all they can give us is the promise of a future.
Nor is he yet a great philanthropist: his pledge to leave 10% of his estate to charity pales beside the promise to give away most of their wealth made by signatories of the Giving Pledge for American billionaires launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Mobile though was the great promise, the unspoken industrial policy, the vision to unseat America at the top of the tech pyramid.
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