In the introduction to this entry, in order to avoid making a premature commitment to the picture theory, and in accordance with definitions given by psychologists such as McKellar (1957), Richardson (1969), and Finke (1989), mental imagery was characterized as a form of experience (i.e., as {1}).
But he has studiously avoided making a public commitment to run.
Labour has been careful to avoid making similar commitments.
The problem is in part political – some countries are put off by the OECD's continued co-leadership of the process, while others simply use that as an excuse to avoid making commitments.
Monetary economists had long agreed that central banks should avoid making predictions or commitments.
Concentrating on it at the expense of topics that do—health, education and jobs is not wise.The second way to restore trust is to avoid making commitments that you may be unable to keep.
"Experts criticise that Australia's attitude appeared to be to try to avoid making any substantive commitments, and to do the absolute minimum that it has to.
While there is little immediate threat that creditors will deny further aid to the government in Athens, finding a formula to turn the spigot back on has proved intensely difficult, particularly for Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to avoid making new financing commitments to the most vulnerable euro area countries like Greece ahead of her re-election campaign next year.
After expressing my feelings to David we had a good talk in which he told me that I'm not the first person to have had this problem with his desire to avoid making commitments and agreements in order to "keep my options open in case something better shows up".
After expressing my feelings to David we had a good talk in which he told me that I'm not the first person to have had this problem with his desire to avoid making commitments and agreements in order to "keep my options open in case something better shows up". While I appreciated David's honesty, I felt some resentment about being held as just another 'option' on David's dance card.
But many members of Congress said that even in the rush to assure the nation and the world that the nation's leaders were united, they tried to avoid making as open-ended a commitment as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, which President Lyndon B. Johnson cited as his basis for escalating the Vietnam War.
