Translation for 'to promise' from English to Serbian

to promise

обећати [св.]

обећавати [несв.]

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promise

unverified обећање {ср}

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to make a promise

unverified дати обећање [св.]

• "When I peruse the letters which I have formerly received from both houses of parliament, with all their great promises and engagements to me, never to forget the great services which I have done them … it would almost make a man desperate to see how I am deserted and slighted in place of the great rewards which the honourable houses were pleased to promise me".
• "Enclosure indicates private property and capital: it seems to promise both individual ownership and social productivity, but in fact the concept of enclosure is inseparable from terror and the destruction of independence and community".
• Those who did agree to attest had to promise to present themselves at their recruiting office within 48 hours, while some were accompanied there immediately.
• The chieftains had to promise to discontinue their support for the pirates.
• Haig was irritated by the high-handed behaviour of the French, seizing roads which they had promised for British use and refusing to promise to cover the British right flank.

• After a great battle, the octopus won by pulling out his teeth with her 8 arms which enabled her to hold off the massive attack of Dakuwaqa, forcing Dakuwaqa to promise to never attack Kadavu again.
• Oak wreaths were also thought to promise the blessing of horses and bees.
• David's appointment of Amasa has been interpreted as "a bold stroke of policy, to promise the post of commander-in chief to the general of the rebel army".
• They do not have to 'promise'. Speaking and doing are the same action.
• High tariffs were used by Republicans to promise higher sales to business, higher wages to industrial workers, and higher demand for farm products.

• In 2010, protests by students and staff led UCL to promise to pay a living wage to all UCL staff.
• Balfour refused to be drawn on whether or not he would be willing to form a Conservative government, but advised the King not to promise to create peers until he had seen the terms of any proposed constitutional change.
• One of the things that commended his candidacy to certain cardinals may have been his physical vigour, which seemed to promise a long pontificate.
• The Turks in their turn pressed Carol to sign an alliance with the Soviet Union, something that Carol said very reluctantly he might do if the Turks were to serve as the middlemen and if the Soviets were to promise to recognize the border with Romania.
• However, because Arista had continued to promise the Bay City Rollers their royalties in writing, the judge ruled that the statute was not applicable.

• The duke had to promise to level the burgh in 1249.
• Dix had to promise to paint only inoffensive landscapes.