Sentence examples for a categorical commitment from inspiring English sources

But he refused to give a categorical commitment to maintaining the current first-past-the-post system.

Throw in Labour's known predilection for top-slicing and the categorical commitment (in an interview on last week's The Media Show on Radio 4) by Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, that the Conservatives will abolish the BBC Trust as soon as charter renewal allows, and it looks as if the BBC is in for quite a fight whoever wins.

Asked directly whether he would "avoid launching a tool of censorship and surveillance in China while you are CEO of Google", Pichai trod carefully in his response, avoiding making any such categorical commitment — but saying he would be "very thoughtful" about any relaunch. .

In this way, Hegel does try to reconcile the need for conceptual elements constitutive of traditional epistemological idealism with (most of) the categorical commitments characteristic of traditional ontological idealism yet in a way that no longer requires the opposition between epistemology and ontology.

There is an apparent tension between Mill's commitment to a categorical approach to basic liberties and his defense of utilitarianism.

It is a categorical dismissal of categories.

That's a categorical statement, but it's true".

The concierge is making a categorical point about furniture.

So that's a categorical no to fracking, then?

It's a categorical error based on simple-minded sentiment.

Rosenberg saw the song as a categorical threat.