On the eve of the European elections, the Tory leader stands accused of adopting a "rigid commitment to impotence" after he pledged to withdraw from the main centre-right grouping in the European parliament.
The first step to doing so is adopting a 1.5 degree commitment in Paris.
Some suggested lawmakers examine whether Connecticut should adopt a civil commitment law, like those in nearly 20 other states, including New York and New Jersey, which allows judges to confine sex offenders for longer than their sentence provides.
We explored our shared values and adopted a new Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Statement: "The Junior League welcomes all women who value our Mission.
While Canada has threatened to walk away from Kyoto altogether, the European Union has declared that it is prepared to adopt a new commitment period -- so long as the goal of a legally binding treaty covering all countries is restored to the negotiations.
To adopt a normative commitment, so the argument goes, is to 'subordinate oneself in the name of an external code, truth, authority or goal' (Rose, 1999b: 283); it is to become unwittingly 'hard-wired' to a political perspective (Rose, O'Malley and Valverde, 2006: 101).
The committee dismissed the idea of adopting a new benchmark, like a commitment to pursue stimulus until the nation's economic output recovers from the recession.
In the case of the de la Mesas, that commitment entails adopting a much sparer lifestyle, closer to that of their political cohort.
As with any commitment, however, adopting a policy is only as powerful as the determination to implement it.
Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said he believes that gay marriage will now be adopted as a commitment in the party's election platform at the Democratic convention in September.
