This raises the most daunting challenge of all: finding ways to ensure that we will abide by our previous commitments, made while in full control of our mental faculties.
"Right now, our legislation doesn't allow for that," Marino said in an interview on Televisa's "Primero Noticias". "We have to abide by our international commitments and the extradition law.
Just as the connotatively active word 'support' has been interpreted to mean simply a commitment to abide by our constitutional system, the second clause of this oath is merely oriented to the negative implication of this notion; it is a commitment not to use illegal and constitutionally unprotected force to change the constitutional system.
The majority first chides the District Court for taking 'a literal approach' and 'giv ing) (the word 'oppose') a dictionary meaning.' The majority then reads 'oppose' to be a mere 'negative implication of th e) notion' of 'a commitment to abide by our constitutional system' not requiring 'specific, positive action.' Ante, at 683, 684.
According to Erikson, intimacy is achieved when the adolescent has developed the capacity to commit to a concrete affiliation and abide by the commitment, even if this means sacrifice and compromise [ 1]. Paul and White [ 2] describe three stages in the development of intimate relationships in late adolescence.
"The Palestinian Authority must abide by its commitment to avoid violence or unilateral action," she said.
As they struggle over whether there is to be a recall vote, President Hugo Chávez and the opposition parties need to abide by their commitment to democracy.
The Lib Dems will abide by their commitment in the coalition agreement to abstain in a Commons vote introducing the allowance, allowing it to pass.
As George Osborne told MPs that the government would abide by its commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on aid by 2013, Greening told Save the Children and other charities that this is the "right thing to do".
Lamenting the need for police officers — requested by the board members because the issue has become so heated — and saying the board's decision smacked of "perverse elitism," Robert K. Tanenbaum, a former mayor of Beverly Hills, said, "We made a commitment to these students, and we expect you to abide by that commitment".
