Sentence examples for began to commit from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the province and the city of Montreal began to commit enormous public expenditures for building projects and amassed a huge public debt.

As a result, he relied more and more on memories of past reading, and began to commit the gaffes that would bedevil all his political campaigns.

President Lyndon B. Johnson promoted him to secretary in 1964 when the administration began to commit combat troops to Southeast Asia.

7.13pm BST Final thoughts So the tightest win yet for the US, who had to deal with a few flurries of pressure in the second half as North Korea began to commit players forward.

When Marlantes began to commit this experience to paper, the books that influenced him, he says, were the classics: "War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead and the literature of the first world war.

In "The Book of Tea," published in 1906, Kakuzo Okakura observed that the average Westerner was accustomed "to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilized since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields".

In the mid-sixties, Yale, like other élite universities, had begun to commit itself to progressive admissions policies based upon merit and a quest for ethnic diversity rather than Wasp hegemony.

When guards at Rikers Island beat a prisoner to death, or when workers in China making iPhones begin to commit suicide out of despair, we regard these as intolerable evils that must be cured.

"Let's say he's thinking inside, or has already begun to commit to what he thinks is an inside pitch, and then realizes it's away," Robson said in explaining why Suzuki's technique leads to more infield hits.

"Every tyrant in the world should begin to commit aggression as fast as he can because for the next 10 years or so, there is no court in the world that will try him," Mr. Ferencz said.

TPG itself is beginning to commit more money to Africa.