Yet these various demanding commitments were complementary.
A career often demands commitment and elicits passion.
We learned to imagine ourselves on the fast track to an exciting goal that demanded commitment and focus: each one of us, say the mystics, was put here with an individual purpose, a role to play in an unfolding drama.
It demands commitment and maturity.
Five years after Papendreou's public admission of lying about Greece's finances, bailout negotiations continue to demand commitments to an independent statistical agency.
Nelsons will lead six Tanglewood concerts next year, but in 2016 he is slated to conduct "Parsifal" in Bayreuth — a demanding, summer-long commitment.
This doesn't apply to mixed reviews, but when there's a show that I've truly thrown down with — this means you, "The Newsroom," and you too, "True Detective" — a pan demands commitment.
Owning a J.D.M. car demands commitment — an earlier burst of exposure waned with tightening enforcement of federal safety and emissions rules — yet there are rewards.
Only hours before, Mr. Koppel had issued a statement demanding a substantial commitment to his 11 35 p.m. program after ABC's attempt to replace it with a David Letterman talk show failed with Mr. Letterman's decision to stay at CBS.
After Mr. Letterman made public his decision to stay at CBS on Monday, Mr. Koppel and his top producers issued a statement demanding a substantial commitment to "Nightline" and implying dire consequences for ABC and Disney should they be rebuffed.
(Shall I be a redhead? How about a guy?) But its a place that demands commitment, much like moving to another country means learning a new language and customs, Id have to spend a lot more time in Second Life before I becoming fluent in how to move, live and act in this world.
