Sentence examples for are about to commit from inspiring English sources

One case history with which he confronts students involves an American officer in postwar occupied Japan who learns that some defeated soldiers are about to commit ritual suicide.

I confess: My wife and I are about to commit what some people consider a socially irresponsible act.

Instead, they go after people who are about to commit murder, swooping down to stop them in the nick of time.

But few political observers believe that they are about to commit the kind of political suicide that helped Mr. Mitterrand win the presidency in 1981.

Well, here's some more: The minister of the interior says that groups of Palestinians are about to commit acts of terror with weapons they stole from the Egyptian police on 28 January 2011.

In Naples, where helmet use is so rare that the police often stop helmeted riders, suspecting they are about to commit a crime, the police gave out 890 tickets by midafternoon.

I am about to commit a new millennium offense for which there is no punishment.

Britain is about to commit to modernising its forces, as well, while France is halfway through the process.

One man's journal refers to "a sin as grave as the one I am about to commit," which sounds juicy, but the revelation is disappointingly unoriginal.

He even stopped himself short at one point in the interview as he was about to "commit news," as he put it.

I am about to commit an act of meta-journalism.