The phrase "all but committed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone is very close to making a commitment or decision, but has not officially done so yet.
Example: "After weeks of discussions, the board is all but committed to the new project, pending final approval."
Alternatives: "virtually committed" or "practically committed".
Their legitimacy is tenuous and the Labour party is now all but committed to abolish them altogether.
But now, they have all but committed to settling the Iran fight in the courts — or admitting defeat.
By guaranteeing the $8.75 million he is owed in 2013, the Jets are all but committed to bringing him back next season.
Mr. Bush has all but committed the United States to building a limited anti-missile defense system that both Russia and China call a threat to their security and the spark that would ignite a nuclear arms race.
At the shorter end of the yield curve, government bond yields are determined by investors' expectations of the likely level of official interest rates, and the Federal Reserve has all but committed to keeping rates at their current ultra-low levels until 2013.The use of quantitative easing (QE) to buy government bonds may have been a factor in pushing down longer-term yields.
Impeachment is unlikely, other legislators say, but William L. Gormley, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, has all but committed himself to calling Mr. Verniero to testify when his committee holds hearings, likely to begin in February, on what state officials knew about profiling and when they knew it.
What were they, 15, 16?" Settling on this as his opening, Boyle all but commits himself to a story that will proceed by and resolve itself in conflict.
Prof. March: Pessimistic, but committed.
It doesn't explain all the outrages committed, but it does explain a good number, the Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Nuncio of His Holiness, assures me.
Consider the fact that he is all but publicly committed to vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline.
In fact, the panel's vote all but commits the federal government to buy vaccines for as many as seven million girls at a total price that could exceed $2 billion.
