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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a formal commitment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a serious promise or obligation that is officially recognized or documented.
Example: "The company made a formal commitment to reduce its carbon footprint by 50% over the next decade."
Alternatives: "an official pledge" or "a binding agreement."
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I don't have a formal commitment yet, but I'm very close with one major cellphone company.
It explains how he was blinded into a formal commitment, despite his horror regarding legal matters.
He was equally perplexed by her unwillingness to make a formal commitment.
Twenty-five yeago ago, New York City made a formal commitment to protect its architectural heritage.
On any project, the development of task familiarity and good working relationships takes a formal commitment of time and money.
Ed Miliband has delivered a formal commitment to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in elections from May 2016.
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None of the investors he says he represents has any formal commitment to Jaguar, so he is not naming them publicly or identifying them to one another.
Creditor nations can give with one hand, or stop taking with the other.In practice, however, debt relief is a more formal commitment than an aid pledge.
Last week, three Democratic senators from states hit hard by the opioid epidemic, Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, sent a letter to Purdue, insisting that it make a more formal commitment not to make money from the treatments.
But he too refuses to contemplate a more formal commitment.
Mr. Bush signaled that he did not think that a formal treaty was necessary, but added he would be willing to make a less formal commitment.
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