Sentence examples for before we committed from inspiring English sources

Even then we still trod tentatively and racked up a lot of air miles winning new business before we committed to a Boston and San Francisco office".

I didn't think he necessarily made the right decision to take land troops off the table right before we committed ourselves offensively.

Rather than fly from London to Nice, a journey as brief as a plastic-tray lunch, Jane and I decided to drive to the Cote d'Azur and steal a few last days of freedom before we committed ourselves to Eden-Olympia and the disciplines of the Euro-corporate lifestyle.

Funny, King wasn't very happy to look into George W. Bush's folly into war a few years ago before we committed troops.

Testing and affirming ideas collectively--before we commit to them rigidly, or before we officially change our minds--is the procedural style of democracy.

At a party I still want to "do a lap before we commit to a location".

Hopefully we'll remedy that failure before we commit ourselves to catastrophic climate consequences that we're unprepared to face.

Should there be airtight proof that a pioneering program works before we commit federal money to it — or is it sometimes worth investing in promising but unproven innovations?

"Before we commit troops, there has to be a clear strategy," Mr. Bush said, citing Bosnia and Haiti as two examples of places where that was arguably not the case.

"We've got quite a bit of work to do over the next couple of days before we commit" to another spacewalk, said Stephen C. Doering, who heads the office responsible for planning spacewalks.

Before we commit headlong to Kasarda's and Lindsay's vision — what Self in a powerful critique of their work in the London Review of Books calls "the redeye flight to apocalypse" — I recommend that we all take a walk out from our old cities to our airports with their supplicant aerotropoli, the better to measure where we really are, who we are, and where we want to go.